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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Then you pretty much already know. Prion diseases are barely contagious in terms of R0, the average number of people that an infected person goes on to infect (which needs to be at least >1 for the disease to keep spreading).
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