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A comment on Alzheimer’s cases tied to no-longer-used medical procedure. Parent comment

Re:Alzheimer’s cases tied to no-longer-used medical procedure by eigenvalue on Monday January 29, 2024 @06:36PM (#39184280)
Oh man, I bet you’re right and enough time hasn’t gone by to see the fallout from it! I bet rich people will start bidding up tendons and ligaments from younger cadavers (probably mostly motorcycle accident victims). Although given that so many of those have toxoplasmosis, maybe that’s also not great…
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Re:Alzheimer’s cases tied to no-longer-used medical procedure by fbdab103 on Monday January 29, 2024 @11:04PM (#39186281)
One estimate says that 30-50% of all human beings have toxoplasmosis, so I would put that as pretty low on the list of risks.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3963851/

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