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[–] Kyrgizion 110 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (18 children)

Fuck prions and the horse they rode in on. They're not even alive, so you can't kill them. No vaccine, no cure, and thoroughly cooking your food is still no guaranteed way to get rid of them.

Nature's silent assassins, and they take their sweet time doing it too. By the time you first notice it's already far too late.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Well, viruses aren't alive either. I would say they are very similar to Prions in the aspect, that it is just a rogue biological building block, able to get itself reproduced, to the dismay of the body.

Also there is no reason, why you couldn't develop vaccines against Prions. It could be even simpler, because they have to be shaped very specifically to cause the harm they do, and it should be easy to break that specific shape with something attaching to it.

[–] SparrowRanjitScaur 1 points 8 months ago

Viruses at least have DNA though. Prions are far, far simpler by comparison.

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