re: Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease **updated pg 5

Prion. Hopefully, they find how it was "infected" with it. I've read some reports of prions being able to live in the soil indefinitely after an animal dies from it. But, they have discovered so much about them since I first learned of it, I don't really know much. I know its an abnormal mis-shaped protein that once it touches another protein molecule it turns into a mis-shaped molecule. I don't think there is a cure. I know 5 years ago, if they found someone had it in a brain lesion, they would incinerate every tool used in the surgery.