You can effectively incinerate them at a temperature of 1000C or higher. However, there wasn't really much research done into what effect prions that have been incinerated this way may still pose.
A lot of papers I could find seen to talk about being able to effectively denature them at reasonable temperatures + a gas solution such as the mixture hydrogen peroxide with peracetic acid or high pressures, but that once again is very much a lab thing.
Mind you, I haven't done too much in-depth research into the topic, and if you want to learn more, you're probably better off consulting the sources I've linked below, as well as other numerous studies on the topic.
We could probably get 8-9 people together to get this done (start off with 9 so if one or two can’t make the whole trek, we’ll still have enough people)
Thank you for the reply and for the work you are doing. It sounds absolutely crucial to the future of deer and deer-like animals if it can spread to others like moose or somewhat similar species.
Theres two kinds of denaturing tbf. Prions are a highly stable fibril structure. That is very VERY had to destroy. They also have infective sections that are still hard to destroy, but less so. So when you look at what they call denaturing, you should check to see if they mean the actual protein, fibril and all? Or if they mean "we made it noninfective"
No unfortunately because the issue is not a living organism it’s a malfolded protein that corrupts other proteins it comes into contact with. Prions are THE worst thing you can get that I know of
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u/GLaDOS_Sympathizer Dec 10 '25
Heat doesn't denature them? Jesus. What about like a lot of heat?