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  You must construct additional prions!
context: Fuck as a Brit the 90s are back. The burning bodies in fields. >
  
  We could also follow it up with Foot and Mouth, we get burning and disinfectant. >
  
  Farm to table, foot to mouth. >
  
  The issue back when this was killing people in the 80s was they were feeding the cows their own byproducts, like brains. That was causing it to spread so I assume this practice has stopped. >
  
  Prions are the cause of mad cow disease, and they are very difficult to destroy. Obviously feeding bovine by-products to cows is a concern, but fertilizing with manure from infected cows that hasn't been properly composted is a huge concern. We see e-coli outbreaks in lettuce from insufficiently composted manure. The spread of mad cow could happen just as easily. >
  
  Are you saying it because you know for sure (from actual studies) or are you just extrapolating from the e-coli stuff.
  Because one thing is a whole bacteria which has an actual cell wall that lets it resist the active chemical and biological agents of the outside environment, a completelly different thing is a random protein from inside an animal that's misfolded.
  I don't thing you can just presume that a protein will last long outside: it might, it might not.
  PS: Not a biologist, might be completelly wrong, would love to hear more about this. >
  
  Prions are EXTREMELY durable and infectious. 
  They’re considered so infectious that surgical instruments used on someone infected with them are destroyed, because they cannot be reliably sterilized. >
  
  
  Sustained heat for several hours at extremely high temperatures (900°F and above) will reliably destroy a prion.
  
  Are we sure this is not a kind of alien attack?