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Is there a disease that kills by preventing sleep?

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The Pros and Cons of Prions

It's very weird because we go from not even recognizing diseases like fatal familial insomnia as a disease until the 80s. Having an outbreak of mag cow disease, having an outbreak of CJD all within a couple of decades. And all the while people are saying like no, prions can't exist. What you're saying is it can't be possible.

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