'Transmittable Alzheimer's' concept raised

10 Sept 2015


Alzheimer’s disease might be transmissible in the same way as the brain disease CJD, according to a new study in Nature. The researchers theorise that amyloid plaque “seeds” can transfer through contaminated human growth hormone injections.

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