Could Alzheimer’s disease be transmitted between people by common medical procedures? Not according to the medical orthodoxy, which says the condition happens due to a build-up of proteins in the brain.
But a controversial idea posits that occasionally those proteins can be passed from one person to another through measures such as bone marrow and organ transplants, or even blood transfusions.…
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