When she was 23, a lab worker pricked her thumb in an experiment with prion-infected mice. She died 10 years later

[dontbenebby]

@mr_raccoon

This doesn’t just happen to folks who get the prion from cows, many people in my area got sick and died after they ate prion infected squirrel brains.

all the nate silver approved burrito places in frisco had cow brain (“Sesos”) but I was never brave enough to try… maybe that was a good thing