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Re:France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal br... by hallway_monitor on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:29AM (#27984222)
I was thinking what if she amputated her thumb immediately? It seems like an extreme reaction, but could it have prevented her infection and death?
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Re:France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal br... by subroutine on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @12:34PM (#27985777)
That'd be a bold move, considering (1) it may not have helped, and (2) it is possible the thumb incident wasn't how she got infected. It's possible she got infected some other random day in the lab. Maybe she rubbed her eye while wearing a contaminated glove, or breathed in brain flecks through a poor fitting N95, while slicing a particularly dry cryosample.
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Re:France issues moratorium on prion research after fatal br... by bencollier49 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @10:57AM (#27984586)
Good luck getting that research commissioned!

Interesting idea though, and really it'd be a pretty sensible trade-off.

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