Alzheimer's Disease: Return of the Prion Hypothesis

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Alzheimers is a prion disease
Helane Shields

9/26/2012 9:23:56 AM

 It is time for the public to be told the truth: Mice IC inoculated with Alzheimer's brain went on to develop prion disease. Jucker M, 2010; Soto, Claudio, 2011; Prusiner, Stanley, 2012. Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and sporadic Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (sCJD) are sister prion diseases (like mad cow and Chronic Wasting Disease), transmissible by aerosols, tainted meat and feed, infectious by medical (scopes, etc.) dental and eye equipment, blood, urine, feces, saliva, mucous. sCJD is AD on fast forward. AD epidemic = 6 million US victims, new case every 68 seconds. Recently, scientists including UCSF Nobel Laureate Stanley Prusiner (for his prion research) identified other diseases including Parkinson's (3 million US victims), Huntington's and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis as being caused by misfolding infectious prions/proteins http://www.alzheimers-prions.com/pdf/JUNE2012PRUSINER-ETAL- ALZHEIMERSISAPRIONDISEASE.pdf "The prion-like behavior implicated in Alzheimer's disease also suggests that it may be transmissible like mad cow disease." "Our findings open the possibility that some of the sporadic Alzheimer's cases may arise from an infectious process," senior author Claudio Soto said in a statement in October. " http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/336322/20120502/alzheimer-s-trigger-cause-mad-cow-prion.htm?utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Alzheimers+Twitter+News&utm_source=twitterfeed A symposium of prion experts will meet on November 12, 2012 at The University of Edinburgh, Scotland, to present research and information on the issue of the transmissibility of Alzheimer's. http://www.stn.ed.ac.uk/stn/seminars.html Helane Shields, Alton, NH hshields@tds.net http://www.alzheimers-prions.com/