Spooky: Alzheimer’s Disease may be Spread Through Surgical Tools

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By Julie Fidler

A new study suggests the terrifying possibility that Alzheimer’s disease could be transmitted from person to person through some medical procedures.

The study is small – 8 people – but it’s enough to make researchers question whether contaminated surgical tools might be capable of spreading the “seeds” of the disease, which clog the brain with amyloid proteins and steals the memories of patients. [1]

The participants, adults between the ages of 36 and 51, all died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) after receiving contaminated hormone injections as children. Autopsies performed on their brains showed that 7 of the deceased patients …read more

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