HOUSTON: Seeds of Alzheimer’s disease can potentially attach to surgical instruments and be transferred from one person to another during certain medical procedures, a study suggests.
The highly controversial research provides the first evidence of dementia transmission in humans via microscopic protein fragments.
British scientists stumbled on the discovery while investigating a rare form of “iatrogenic” Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (iCJD), a brain-destroying condition known to be spread by contaminated surgical instruments and procedures…