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Re:France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal br... by bvm on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:21AM (#27984111)
Disclaimer: I know nothing about prions.

I think there's a mistake in the article, her website goes into more detail:

https://soutien-a-emilie0.webnode.fr/lhistoire/ (gtranslate)

> Emilie is therefore working that day on samples of mice infected with strains of human prions. It is important to stress here that these were human strains and not animal strains, the species barrier no longer protecting, the infectivity of the pathogens handled by Emilie was therefore total.

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Re:France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal br... by Y_Y on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @11:18AM (#27984827)
> Emilie travaille donc ce jour là sur des échantillons de souris infectées avec des souches de prions humaines. ll est important de souligner ici qu'il s'agissait de souches humaines et non de souches animales, la barrière d'espèce ne protégeant plus, l'infectiosité des pathogènes manipulés par Emilie était donc totale.

(In case anyone else wanted to double-check the translation.)

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Re:France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal br... by metiscus on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @08:51PM (#27991540)
It's been a bit since I took french but that looks pretty good to me.
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