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Re:Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe by imaginenore on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @08:35AM (#11533876)
Prions are fucking scary. They survive all regular decontamination procedures - alcohol, boiling, even autoclave. Patients had been infected through the sterilized scalpels and endoscopes.
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Re:Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe by drunken-serval on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @10:44AM (#11534739)
They don't survive bleach though. Which is helpful.
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Re:Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe by azazqadir on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @09:59AM (#11534405)
>>Patients had been infected through the sterilized scalpels and endoscopes.

For someone who had an endoscope recently, that's really scary.

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Re:Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe by zymhan on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @10:54AM (#11534825)
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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