Alzheimer’s cases tied to no-longer-used medical procedure

Post by EasyMark » Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 1:37 PM UTC

pvaldes wrote: post #177

bagels wrote: post #174

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The doctor or their patients have the higher risk?

if I remember correctly Dentists had more cases of alzheimer than other groups of doctors. I heard it some time ago. If is a prion, it should resist most sterilization of dental instruments by heat on autoclave. So is obvious IMAO that this could be a way to spread the disease from one patient to other, but I'm not an expert on clinic procedures and the protocols may have been updated. This is known, or at least susp…

Post by EasyMark » Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 1:41 PM UTC

jonp888 wrote: post #224

bregma wrote: post #183

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> I wonder what other stuff is being unwittingly transferred during standard blood transfusions. Back in the early 1990s my wife worked in epidemiology studies at the national blood agency in our country. There was a lot of work to be done since at the time being a hemophiliac and receiving blood products meant a good chance of dying from AIDS or non-A non-B hepatitis (now known as Hep C). The agency did not test eac…

Until 2023 male blood donors in Germany were still asked "have you had sex with a man in the last 4 months?" As an exclusion criterium. Donors who lived in Britain in the 90's are still banned due to the Lack of a Test which can identify 'Mad Cow Disease'.

Post by caycep » Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 5:10 PM UTC

msla wrote: post #112

caycep wrote: post #44

There is a line of research into the "transmissible' phenomena of a lot of these neurodegen dz. Epidemiologically, it's probably not infectious from one person to another bc we don't see spouses getting PD or AD often. But there's interesting phenomena - i.e. one of the Parkinson's stem cell implantation trials got a lot of press after the trial (which failed, didn't show benefit) bc after subjects passed several yea…

> w/ mice Is this a special kind of mouse?

Post by jokoon » Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 10:13 PM UTC

coffeebeqn wrote: post #95

EdwardDiego wrote: post #69

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All the researchers are all UK based, and the UK became verrrry interested in prion diseases due to a very bad habit UK agriculture had gotten into of incorporating culled animals (other cattle, which furthered the spread, but the ultimate cause was likely grinding up sheep infected with scrapies, an ovine spongiform encephalopathy) supplementary cattle feed for animals later eaten by humans which led to the CJD outb…

Cows are also fed “sewage solids” from water treatment plants. Now that I think about it maybe I should stop eating / drinking cow products

Post by lazide » Wed, Jan 31, 2024, 10:19 PM UTC

coffeebeqn wrote: post #95

EdwardDiego wrote: post #69

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All the researchers are all UK based, and the UK became verrrry interested in prion diseases due to a very bad habit UK agriculture had gotten into of incorporating culled animals (other cattle, which furthered the spread, but the ultimate cause was likely grinding up sheep infected with scrapies, an ovine spongiform encephalopathy) supplementary cattle feed for animals later eaten by humans which led to the CJD outb…

Cows are also fed “sewage solids” from water treatment plants. Now that I think about it maybe I should stop eating / drinking cow products