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Re:Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe by pc86 on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @09:38AM (#11534255)
If you are specifically (and erroneously) terrified of catching a prion disease, chicken is still better. You're much more likely to get sick but much less likely to catch a prion disease.
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Re:Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe by Razengan on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @10:53AM (#11534816)
What about fish and other seafood?
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Re:Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe by pm90 on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @11:07AM (#11534934)
Mercury poisoning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_in_fish
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Re:Deadly animal prion disease appears in Europe by yourapostasy on Wednesday April 20, 2016 @12:08PM (#11535423)
Which has to be the leading contender for our civilization's equivalent to "those Roman Empire folks were so dumb for using lead, ha ha". Though it is highly doubtful that lead poisoning caused the downfall of the Roman Empire, one to two order of magnitude elevated levels of exposures compared to normal background levels were no picnic the bodies of for those exposed.

Another example of distributed costs, concentrated benefits really screwing us over in the long-run.

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