reddittroll111

This makes them VERY hard to unfold, so traditional decontamination methods don't often work on prions.

for want of a better word, how exactly would you "kill" a prion?

they freak me out too

just the idea that i could be slowly dying a terrible and 100% incurable death because a squirrel got run over on my street scares the shit out of me. i don't mind bacteria and viruses at all, i'm not really scared for some reason. at least ebola can be killed with fire but prions are eternal and always lethal