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RE: New Blood Tests Detect Prion Related Diseases With High Efficiency
Great article. This is a good step in preventing humans from eating it. The question would be, how much would it cost to keep people safe? Mad cow is crazy because it takes so long for the prion disease to affect the human, but then it is rapidly progressive! Damn prions!
Yep, people can have it for a long time and not even know it. It's more than just eating it. Blood transfusions are another way for transmission. With a good screening technique it shouldn't be cost prohibitive to test all blood samples as a part of other regular screenings before administration.
Yep, just read it again! Another interesting thing is that there is a theory that natural melatonin (chopped up pineal gland brain tissue) from certain animals could potentially cause prion disease. Cannibalism has also lead to some crazy prion diseases. If I were to take melatonin, I would for sure not get it from a "natural source." A perfect example of when "natural" is not "better."
I would certainly prefer to take recombinant produced melatonin. It would be pure, and seemingly much cheaper to obtain then from an animal source. Do you know of any studies on that theory? I'm curious to read about it. Thanks. Also thanks for resteem. :)
No problem! I am not certain it has been correlated yet, as I have not found good evidence based data yet. It was mentioned during a medical school lecture. I found this from https://www.drugs.com/melatonin.html
Melatonin is often sold as a dietary supplement.
"The use of melatonin derived from animal pineal tissue may carry the risk of contamination or the means of transmitting viral material. The synthetic form of this medication does not carry this risk."
Time will tell I guess haha