Fuck prions and the horse they rode in on.
They’re not even alive, so you can’t kill them. No vaccine, no cure, and thoroughly cooking your food is still no guaranteed way to get rid of them.
Nature’s silent assassins, and they take their sweet time doing it too. By the time you first notice it’s already far too late.
I say this without any attempt at humor, “kill yourself peacefully before you’re unable to and the people around you refuse to”
If I knew I had a prion disease, I’d be making plans to die peacefully unaware, or suddenly, the moment a symptom shows up.
My only real firsthand experience with prion diseases is Fatal Familial Insomnia, and the person was strapped into hospital bed restraints after a suicide attempt, and the only thing they would do when they chose to speak was beg for us to let them die because they can’t keep going like this anymore.
Edit: honestly I do not know if there is any way to treat other prions, but to my knowledge there isn’t. It’s just “ease their suffering as they slowly die in front of you”
Well, viruses aren’t alive either. I would say they are very similar to Prions in the aspect, that it is just a rogue biological building block, able to get itself reproduced, to the dismay of the body.
Also there is no reason, why you couldn’t develop vaccines against Prions. It could be even simpler, because they have to be shaped very specifically to cause the harm they do, and it should be easy to break that specific shape with something attaching to it.
Fuck prions and the horse they rode in on. They’re not even alive, so you can’t kill them. No vaccine, no cure, and thoroughly cooking your food is still no guaranteed way to get rid of them.
Nature’s silent assassins, and they take their sweet time doing it too. By the time you first notice it’s already far too late.
Wdym too late? Is there something you could have done if you knew “soon enough”?
I say this without any attempt at humor, “kill yourself peacefully before you’re unable to and the people around you refuse to”
If I knew I had a prion disease, I’d be making plans to die peacefully unaware, or suddenly, the moment a symptom shows up.
My only real firsthand experience with prion diseases is Fatal Familial Insomnia, and the person was strapped into hospital bed restraints after a suicide attempt, and the only thing they would do when they chose to speak was beg for us to let them die because they can’t keep going like this anymore.
Edit: honestly I do not know if there is any way to treat other prions, but to my knowledge there isn’t. It’s just “ease their suffering as they slowly die in front of you”
Same with receiving a fatal dose of radiation poisoning.
People will want to study you. Do yourself a favour and immediately kill yourself via a guaranteed method.
Tell everyone else not to try the lasagna?
Fuckal
“you can’t kill them” And as an American, I took that personally
Prion vaccines would work for sure. Their rarity makes it not all that worthwhile as a public health measure
How do you vaccinate against a protein?
Well, viruses aren’t alive either. I would say they are very similar to Prions in the aspect, that it is just a rogue biological building block, able to get itself reproduced, to the dismay of the body.
Also there is no reason, why you couldn’t develop vaccines against Prions. It could be even simpler, because they have to be shaped very specifically to cause the harm they do, and it should be easy to break that specific shape with something attaching to it.
Viruses at least have DNA though. Prions are far, far simpler by comparison.