We take measures now, for tissues where prions are a possible transmission risk. The article mis-represented that. But:
(1) there are only so many resources to go around. Should we be devoting them to vanishingly rare things rather than things that might actually affect you?
(2) prions will never be a wildfire plague. They have little or no tranmissive ability, by nature of being absolutely naked protein. One step up from that - encoding the protein for space constraints and encapsulating it - is called a virus.
(1) there are only so many resources to go around. Should we be devoting them to vanishingly rare things rather than things that might actually affect you?
(2) prions will never be a wildfire plague. They have little or no tranmissive ability, by nature of being absolutely naked protein. One step up from that - encoding the protein for space constraints and encapsulating it - is called a virus.