There has been a lot of irresponsible reporting of this study in UK newspapers.<p><a href="http://www.nhs.uk/news/2015/09September/Pages/Alzheimers-seeds-found-in-seven-CJD-victims-brains.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.nhs.uk/news/2015/09September/Pages/Alzheimers-see...</a><p>> [...] as the "explosive" study itself concludes: "There is no suggestion that Alzheimer's disease is a contagious disease and no supportive evidence … that Alzheimer's disease is transmissible, notably by blood transfusion".<p>The last para of the submitted article conflicts with the potentially misleading title. (Which is fixed with the addition of a question mark "Evidence for Person-To-Person Transmission of Alzheimer's Pathology?" (but then risks Betteridging))<p>> The research may be a first step toward answering the question of whether human-to-human transmission of pathological proteins is possible. “This is an observational study,” Collinge says. “We’re simply describing what we see in these patients and we are trying to explain that.” This study alone, he says, does not suffice to prove that the Alzheimer’s disease process can be induced in one individual through contact with another’s brain tissue.
If this disease is induced by prions, living in human brain, I suggest cooking elderly brains properly. You should not only heat the dish, but also apply more than 100,000 psi pressure simultaneously. This require a special oven. Glad, the Western culture is mostly immune, since this is not a normal addition to American diet, despite huge number of recent movies to promote this dietary habit.
"four exhibited some degree of cerebral amyloid angiography"<p>Wow. Neural tissue spontaneously developing its own angiography. Amazing.<p>This is why reading a news article about a scientific paper will give you Alzheimer's, or the functional equivalent thereof.<p>For the sake of the little baby Jesus, can't we fucking boycott the (pseudo-)scientific press until they give us a free link to the actual paper? Do we have to be so fucking endlessly stupid?<p>This is why I dislike humanity. Shit.