'Transmittable Alzheimer's' concept raised

People may be able to contract Alzheimer's during certain medical procedures in the same way as the brain disease CJD, say researchers. Contaminated surgical instruments or injections, such as human growth hormone, may pose a rare but potential risk, they speculate in Nature. The theoretical hunch comes from post-mortem brain studies in eight patients. The UK experts stress that their findings are

[frothmouth]

“People may be able to contract Alzheimer's during certain medical procedures in the same way as the brain disease CJD, say researchers.”

[kazutox]

amyloidの種が人由来成長ホルモンから移った可能性 / 決定的な研究ではない、現在は危険性ない