Offbreed wrote:
Oh. I'd never heard of the lymph tissue link. Nor that it was also
found in the intestines.
...... offal is everything in the abdominal cavity. and lymphatic tissue is always
suspect because the role of immune cells is to fight disease so they often engulf
foreign proteins ... altho technically prions are a change in an existing protein.
So the infectious proteins (prions) act more like an enzyme per se than a virus.

Wellll, hampsters are kind of short lived. If I understand how prions
"multiply", one prion surviving to reach a safe area in a human could
eventually corrupt enough other proteins to become a problem. Kuru
had maybe a 40yr incubation?
...... time from infection to symptoms depends on both how big the infectious dose and
how many times it has infected and passed on in the SAME BREED of animal.
example: cow--cow-- cow = fast. Cow--sheep--cow = slower. it is adaptation.

Yes, there sure are all kinds of prion diseases. Ingrid

(shudder) As I understand, not all of them are a problem, though?
.... I dont know of any prion diseases that are not a problem. Ingrid



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