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Scientists document first-ever transmitted Alzheimer’s cases, tied to no-longer-used medical procedure (www.statnews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

To save some people a click, growth hormone apparently used to be extracted from the brains of human cadavers in the UK and some children treated with this later developed Alzheimer’s, some of them as early as their 30’s.

Worth reading the whole article, very interesting!

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