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Episode 128: The Death of Eastern Forests

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The Transmissible Sponge of Form Encephalopathy

There are a couple of other known prion diseases. They're screppy, which is found in sheep and goats. For a while, a long time, we didn't think it could move to humans,. We now believe it can move to humans. It's called the transmissible sponge of form encephalopathy. So your brain becomes a sponge. That's medical talk for it. You get holes in your brain. And there's no like palliative care aside from palliative treatment that even that's not much say when someone is turning into a sponge. The effects are horrifying. Yes. Possible to achieve normal to want.

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