Yeah actually, my dad might have it as he ate plenty of beef in England at the time (not that that in any way makes me an authority on the subject) but there are plenty of prions out there and plenty of them don’t do what Creutzfeldt-Jakobs did. It’s not as if a misfolded protein exactly adapts or evolves to other biologies in order to procreate. It’s just a fucked up protein. Biology is complex and there are many many differences in brain structure from animal to animal. A single misfolded protein could affect one brain incredibly differently than it affects another or even not at all. Prions are scary but they aren’t trying to do anything because they aren’t alive and have no drive to reproduce, they also don’t mutate rapidly like viruses because they aren’t made of DNA.
However I will admit. Prions are fucking terrifying
Yeah, about that… ever heard of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease?
Yeah actually, my dad might have it as he ate plenty of beef in England at the time (not that that in any way makes me an authority on the subject) but there are plenty of prions out there and plenty of them don’t do what Creutzfeldt-Jakobs did. It’s not as if a misfolded protein exactly adapts or evolves to other biologies in order to procreate. It’s just a fucked up protein. Biology is complex and there are many many differences in brain structure from animal to animal. A single misfolded protein could affect one brain incredibly differently than it affects another or even not at all. Prions are scary but they aren’t trying to do anything because they aren’t alive and have no drive to reproduce, they also don’t mutate rapidly like viruses because they aren’t made of DNA.
However I will admit. Prions are fucking terrifying