Maybe they need well ventilated hospital rooms and disposable (e.g. paper towel) scrubs that are burnt after each use.
Probably time to start questioning some of the fundamentals of our modern healthcare setup.
Probably time to start questioning some of the fundamentals of our modern healthcare setup.
BTW, a non-electronic pressure cooker does exactly that in almost any situation, off-grid and even in the bush.
> However, prions, such as those associated with Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, and some toxins released by certain bacteria, such as Cereulide, may not be destroyed by autoclaving at the typical 134 °C for three minutes or 121 °C for 15 minutes and instead should be immersed in sodium hydroxide (1M NaOH) and heated in a gravity displacement autoclave at 121 °C for 30 min, cleaned, rinsed in water and subjected to routine sterilization.
Seems like we should just burn them like the parent suggested. Prions are no joke.
But also, you probably shouldn't have prions just floating around your environment in the first place.