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prion disease,

Jesus. Please tell me that’s an extremely rare result. Because that is genuinely fucking terrifying.

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Jesus fuck. : |

I could have gone the rest of my life without knowing that.

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If you really want to scare yourself go read about FIP, which is what happens to cats when they get repeatedly infected with coronavirus.

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10047479/#:~:text=Current work suggests that there,prion disease%2C i.e.%2C neurodegeneration.

Yeah it’s fully terrifying.

I’m extra freaked that now Covid is endemic in the deer populations because Cervid Wasting Disease is also endemic and I’m afraid they will interact somehow…

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Welp, guess masks are forever now between wildfire smoke and spontaneous prion generation risk. Jfc

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What’s really cool is that prion disease incubation period can be years 🙃

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