Airborne Prions - Biological Weapons

Yes, in addition to a 24 hours episode featuring the use of aerosol prions, I wrote a fictional book where after a nuclear war, a large percentage of the population in the U.S. were wiped out by "Prion."  This a very touchy subject and some of the sites on the net with data on this have been blocked with "well meaning" Google and other search engine certificate protection filters.

Of course - Mad Cow Disease is similar to Alzheimer's in some ways. And it has been staunchly stated that in no way is Alzheimer's contagious much less Prion diseases which could be used as bio-weapons.

I had talked to Kurzweil several years ago as we both were developing tech in AI (Artificial Intelligence) and he had told me this was not so far out there. At the time I had looked over this

 http://www.kurzweilai.net/airborne-prions-are-infectious-precautionary-measures-advised

Prof. Adriano Aguzzi’s team of scientists at the universities of Zurich and Tübingen and the University Hospital Zurich have now challenged the notion that airborne prions are innocuous. In a study, mice were housed in special inhalation chambers and exposed to aerosols containing prions. Unexpectedly, it was found that inhalation of prion-tainted aerosols induced disease with frightening efficiency. Just a single minute of exposure to the aerosols was sufficient to infect 100% of the mice, according to Prof. Aguzzi, who published the findings in the Open-Access-Journal “PLoS Pathogens.”

The longer exposure lasted, the shorter the time of incubation in the recipient mice and the sooner clinical signs of a prion disease occurred. Prof. Aguzzi says the findings are entirely unexpected and appear to contradict the widely held view that prions are not airborne.

comment: Mad Cow disease can be spread by eating beef infected with it. It gets past the stomach and once you have it - it is hell to get rid of of. Seems to me breathing a vaporized form and then swallowing some of it - would work in terms of infecting people with it.

As for Alzheimer's being contagious - this has been suppressed hugely and also by mainstream media. 

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44779621/ns/health-alzheimers_disease/t/alzheimers-may-be-transmissible-study-suggests#.Vu2djK9zZDo

CNN reporter swears it's not

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/10/health/no-alzheimers-is-not-contagious/index.html

This was a kind of hard find but sounds interesting

http://www.wired.com/2011/01/airborne-prions-disease/

When sprayed into the air, prions that cause mad cow and other neurodegenerative diseases may be in one of their most lethal forms.

A new study has revealed one short exposure to sprayed prions can be 100 percent lethal in mice. While the discovery doesn’t present any foreseeable public health threat, it comes as a surprise to scientists who study prion-based diseases and calls existing safety rules for laboratories and slaughterhouses into question.

“Common knowledge is that prions aren’t airborne, and can’t cause infection that way,” said neuropathologist Adriano Aguzzi of University Hospital Zurich, co-author of a study appearing today in PLoS Pathogens. “We were totally surprised and also a bit frightened at how efficient [airborne infections] were.”

comment: obviously there is more information on this and it is likely not only have Western nations continued this research but rogue nations as well.

Medclinician