I’ve read of accounts of “Kuru” and from what I’ve read the diseases caused by prions generally have a long incubation period, and that it can take a very singular prion to cascade into a complete disease.
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I believe that the most common prion for humans is Crutchfield-Jacob’s Disease. IF a hospital allows a patient with CJD into an operating room, there’s a number of precautions taken, including sealing the room for a period of time after before cleaning.
One of my coworkers with housekeeping would assist family that ran a funeral home, and had a client who had passed with CJD, and they explained that out of precaution, their only option was straight to cremation with no visitation out of precaution.
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