False. You are confusing prions with rabies. Rabies is mammal exclusive, prions affect everything. We have dinosaur fossils with evidence of prion infection.
Well, first off. Non-mammalian originating prions aren’t transmissible to mammals, so that’s the one reason your source isn’t mentioning them. Also there’s another commonality between the examples listed in your source, they’re all food or pets. People don’t tend to eat birds or reptiles and there haven’t been any reports of fish-based prions. There are fungus based ones though.
Also your source is literally just directly the table of examples from Wikipedia with humans, nyala/kudu, and ostriches removed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion
Prion diseases are caused by eating the same species as yourself, or by eating a similar species.
Prions are Found in the Brain, Marrow, and Spinal cord, Probably also other nerves. Digestion of the prions causes damage to how the prion proteins fold. This Prion damage, for some reason is contagious, and will cause similar prions to mimic the broken folding, rendering the prions unable to perform their biological functions, causing infected cells to replicate more prions that also mis-fold, these prions migrate to other cells to repeat the damage. When enough cells are infected, areas of the body start to die. In brain tissue this leaves holes or spongiform damage that are symptomatic of prion disease.
One way to avoid prion disease is to avoid eating meat that is known to likely be infected. such as the ban on eating british beef during the Mad cow epidemic. Or not eating infected animals such as wild game when hunting. when hunting, all kills should be tested for Prion diseases.
A good way to avoid prion disease is to not eat the Brains, Marrow, or spinal cord of any animal. The best way to avoid prion disease is to not eat any species that is too closely related to your species.
For humans this would include not eating any Apes, Monkeys, or other Primates.
Especially never eating any Human, Hominid, or Chimpanzee.
She’s 9 now, yeah? As smart as she is, I’d say no. If the current “Human Meat” conversation is amusing her, I can’t see her being traumatized by Soylent Green.
She isn’t likely to be traumatized by reading Soylent Green. Mature enough to resist the temptation to traumatize or gross out the other kids? VERY unlikely without dire threats ahead of time. She’s still likely to lose control if she thinks it is funny enough.
I don’t know if anyone over the pond is aware of it, but on BBC over the festive season they showed a short series called “The War Between the Land and the Sea”. It is set in the same universe as Dr Who, but he/she does not appear. In the first episode an aquatic humanoid is trawled up by a Portuguese fishing boat and when he is understandably angry about it he is shot and killed. The body is then displayed for scientific study. Sound familiar?
AAAAGH
Oh they mean…
I wonder if Sarnothi are immune to Prions?
Well as far as we know, animals that are not mammels are not susceptible, so they probably are immune
False. You are confusing prions with rabies. Rabies is mammal exclusive, prions affect everything. We have dinosaur fossils with evidence of prion infection.
I was going by the fact that all the animals listed here are manmals:
https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/multimedia/table/prion-diseases-in-animals
Please provide your sources.
Well, first off. Non-mammalian originating prions aren’t transmissible to mammals, so that’s the one reason your source isn’t mentioning them. Also there’s another commonality between the examples listed in your source, they’re all food or pets. People don’t tend to eat birds or reptiles and there haven’t been any reports of fish-based prions. There are fungus based ones though.
Also your source is literally just directly the table of examples from Wikipedia with humans, nyala/kudu, and ostriches removed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prion
Here’s a scientific study on prion infection in the zebrafish, which I’m pretty sure is not a mammal:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2802776/
Even better, a study on fungal prions. Fungus aren’t mammals either, they’re not even animals.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2376760/
Since prions are basically warped proteins, they can happen to any lifeform that uses proteins. Nothing is immune.
there are quite a number of prion diseases in animals other than human. Deer Wasting disease is a prion.
Prion diseases are caused by eating the same species as yourself, or by eating a similar species.
Prions are Found in the Brain, Marrow, and Spinal cord, Probably also other nerves. Digestion of the prions causes damage to how the prion proteins fold. This Prion damage, for some reason is contagious, and will cause similar prions to mimic the broken folding, rendering the prions unable to perform their biological functions, causing infected cells to replicate more prions that also mis-fold, these prions migrate to other cells to repeat the damage. When enough cells are infected, areas of the body start to die. In brain tissue this leaves holes or spongiform damage that are symptomatic of prion disease.
One way to avoid prion disease is to avoid eating meat that is known to likely be infected. such as the ban on eating british beef during the Mad cow epidemic. Or not eating infected animals such as wild game when hunting. when hunting, all kills should be tested for Prion diseases.
A good way to avoid prion disease is to not eat the Brains, Marrow, or spinal cord of any animal. The best way to avoid prion disease is to not eat any species that is too closely related to your species.
For humans this would include not eating any Apes, Monkeys, or other Primates.
Especially never eating any Human, Hominid, or Chimpanzee.
You gotta cook human meat well done. Worse than venison. Humans are so free-range.
yep human meat has to be cooked to 170 to destroy prions. Its also kinda like cat. really not that tasty.
Free range? No, I’d say the opposite. They are extremely domesticated.
too domesticated. bleh. they taste like depression
the term is “long pork”
Beat me to it.
Hmm, I’ll leave it up to the community; Is Selkie to young for Soylent Green?
She’s 9 now, yeah? As smart as she is, I’d say no. If the current “Human Meat” conversation is amusing her, I can’t see her being traumatized by Soylent Green.
She isn’t likely to be traumatized by reading Soylent Green. Mature enough to resist the temptation to traumatize or gross out the other kids? VERY unlikely without dire threats ahead of time. She’s still likely to lose control if she thinks it is funny enough.
Hey… At least she tried to warn the Bohn Bohn.
With Bohn Bohn, who apparently can be somewhat naive and innocent at times, Selkie is finally getting to experience the role of a cool big sis. Yey!
Just call it Surface Meat, or Land Meat.
Why? Have you ever eaten Mexican food? Italian food? Chinese food? They’re eating human food. And since all they eat is meat she called it human meat.
Makes absolutely perfect sense to me.
Well, if it’s not fish, I suppose “surface meat” works.
What does “Human Meat” taste like?
It varies from person to person.*
*Joke shamelessly stolen from Futurama
Some say it tastes like pork, but that’s not true. It tastes like veal.
whats veal 😀 its sounds like the thing that one person wore in princess bride
Beef from calves rather than full-grown cattle.
clowns taste funny
I don’t know if anyone over the pond is aware of it, but on BBC over the festive season they showed a short series called “The War Between the Land and the Sea”. It is set in the same universe as Dr Who, but he/she does not appear. In the first episode an aquatic humanoid is trawled up by a Portuguese fishing boat and when he is understandably angry about it he is shot and killed. The body is then displayed for scientific study. Sound familiar?