Re:Infectious Theory of Alzheimer's Disease Draws Fresh Inte...
by sandworm101 on Sunday September 09, 2018 @02:32PM
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From an article cited in the OP:
"Neurosurgeons were more likely to die of Alzheimer
disease, other nonneoplastic nonvascular nervous system
disease, leukemia, and aircraft accidents, when compared with the general population."
That looks like persons exposed to the brains of patients may be catching something.
What if it was a germ? How would one go about finding it? Where would one find the non-infected population with which to compare? It may be a combination of a germ and genetics and that germ may be pervasive in our environment, but that doesn't mean the germ cannot be isolated or even eradicated. So it is worth investigation. We may need to find people (monks?) who have lived without exposure to people with dementia, an interesting anthropological problem imho.
"Neurosurgeons were more likely to die of Alzheimer disease, other nonneoplastic nonvascular nervous system disease, leukemia, and aircraft accidents, when compared with the general population."
That looks like persons exposed to the brains of patients may be catching something.
What if it was a germ? How would one go about finding it? Where would one find the non-infected population with which to compare? It may be a combination of a germ and genetics and that germ may be pervasive in our environment, but that doesn't mean the germ cannot be isolated or even eradicated. So it is worth investigation. We may need to find people (monks?) who have lived without exposure to people with dementia, an interesting anthropological problem imho.