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		aqme28 on Dec 10, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Leth... Why are prion diseases typically brain diseases? Or is that the only organ where they manifest in symptoms?

cobbzilla on Dec 10, 2018 [–]

iirc they reproduce most rapidly in nervous tissue. thus brains have the highest concentration of them.

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