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imaginenore
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Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe
Prions are fucking scary. They survive all regular decontamination procedures - alcohol, boiling, even autoclave. Patients had been infected through the sterilized scalpels and endoscopes.
drunken-serval
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They don't survive bleach though. Which is helpful.
azazqadir
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>>Patients had been infected through the sterilized scalpels and endoscopes.
For someone who had an endoscope recently, that's really scary.
zymhan
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I mean, people were also at times infected with HIV and Hepatitis C from blood transfusions, but we realized the risk and took steps to mitigate it.
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