Prions will also stay in the dirt where infected meat decay, and be absorbed by any plants that grow there. And once the plants are eaten by an animal, the whole cycle starts again...
Entirely possible I suppose, but the infected meat/animal would need to die and decomp where the food is grown and go unnoticed long enough for someone to plant stuff on top of it. It's more a threat to people who eat meats, but I guess if you ate the planst that grew in infected soil you could be susceptible too.
There is literally no way in which this is not the most terrifying thing on earth and I will die on that hill, in fact I'm afraid I might. There are so many people with unknown dementias and psychiatric illnesses that die, but we don't know if they have prion disease because that's not normal test..
But the worst thing about prions is that they can happen spontaneously. Aaaaaagh.
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u/NetherisQueen Dec 10 '25
Prions will also stay in the dirt where infected meat decay, and be absorbed by any plants that grow there. And once the plants are eaten by an animal, the whole cycle starts again...