The following is a conversation that mostly didn't take place recently between me and one Johnnytalk, and which has been lengthened and made to be less accurate for the sake of you, the reader:
TVH (incredulous): Prions!? I must admit, I am not that worried about prions. What, like 10 people have ever gotten Mad Cow?
JT: Well, there is a theory that some forms of Alzheimer's are really caused by the same thing.
TVH: Huh
JT: And like 10% of cattle in the food supply are ever tested.
Plus, they can lie latent in your system for years before any symptoms show.
TVH (helpfully interjecting): word.
JT: When symptoms do show, you have a year to live, and that year is pretty hellish.
There's no test for their presence in your system before you show symptoms. And their is a good chance of misdiagnosis because no one is looking for it.
Oh ya, and there is no cure or really any worthwhile treatment.
(Theo looks pensive and quivers a little bit)
TVH: Shit, I am worried about prions now.
JT: Oh, don't be worried. There's no sense in that. They are probably working their way to your brain right now. Might as well accept it.
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