Explain This

69 - Prions


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Why shouldn't you eat brains? How are cannibalism and mad cow disease linked? Can Jin say "transmissible spongiform encephalopathy" three times as fast?

Let's learn about one of the most terrifying, unstoppable infectious diseases we know about: prions.

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