Future readers of this blog post may be interested in this book-review entry at ACX, which is much more suspicious/wary/pessimistic about prion disease generally:
They dispute the idea that having M/V or V/V genes reduces the odds of getting CJD / mad cow disease / etc.
They imply that Britain’s mad cow disease problem maybe never really went away, in the sense that “spontaneous” cases of CJD have quadrupled since the 80s, so it seems CJD is being passed around somehow?
Future readers of this blog post may be interested in this book-review entry at ACX, which is much more suspicious/wary/pessimistic about prion disease generally:
They dispute the idea that having M/V or V/V genes reduces the odds of getting CJD / mad cow disease / etc.
They imply that Britain’s mad cow disease problem maybe never really went away, in the sense that “spontaneous” cases of CJD have quadrupled since the 80s, so it seems CJD is being passed around somehow?
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-the-family-that