I just spent a good hour looking for the link to the study that I found and posted back in r/pizzagate and then again on voat.
Now, all of that has been vanished and I cannot find it.
To the best of my recollection, this study focused on KURU (although considering the other prion diseases, as well). They had developed a treatment which (in a very small study group of maybe 2 or 3 people) had halted the progression and was showing reversal of symptoms.
It did remind me of an Alzheimer's drug that a friend of a friend was in, with similar results.
I did just find a more recent paper that postulates a treatment which sounds like a lot like immunotherapy [CRSPR].
An interesting thing, which I discovered back when KURU first came to light, is that they have worked hard to come up with a treatment for it.
One has to wonder why so much effort would be put into treating a rare disease that could be simply cured by not eating each other?
With this in mind, I find it quite plausible that a great many of these people are chronic KURU survivors.
I just spent a good hour looking for the link to the study that I found and posted back in r/pizzagate and then again on voat.
Now, all of that has been vanished and I cannot find it.
To the best of my recollection, this study focused on KURU (although considering the other prion diseases, as well). They had developed a treatment which (in a very small study group of maybe 2 or 3 people) had halted the progression and was showing reversal of symptoms.
It did remind me of an Alzheimer's drug that a friend of a friend was in, with similar results.
I did just find a more recent paper that postulates a treatment which sounds like a lot like immunotherapy [CRSPR].
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200506/New-breakthrough-may-help-cure-prion-disease.aspx