"Humanized mice"

This is probably less insidious than it sounds, but can anyone elaborate on what this means?

Not encouraging, I've been talking to the hunters in my life about this issue, so I'll have to add the observed-laboratory-conditions-transmission to the convo...

It can take a decade or 2 for prions to damage your brain enough to notice, after that it’s a pretty rapid spiral into death.

That’s a pretty shit gamble.

I'd be interested in hearing a lawyer's take, I could see it going either way. I bet it depends on the state tbh

I would classify it as biological warfare, but at least they provided full disclosure regarding the dangerous defects.

What kind of casual Facebook marketplace person would want this? Someone with nefarious intentions?

"Mwah-ah-ah I can feed this to my neighbor's dog who barks all day. This will make him quiet."

It might matter that it's possibly not transmissible to humans? I'm not sure.

Autoclaves can be used in parts of the process for cleaning heat resistant instruments, but you still have to treat them with sodium hydroxide or highly concentrated bleach afterwards.

Imo unless it's something you can't do without, just throw it all in the incinerator.

Decontaminating prions is a multi-step process that includes autoclaving. Autoclaving alone is not sufficient. Prions are hard to deal with.

https://youtube.com/shorts/pJZnHL1laU0

Italy lol

Italy?

There’s one in Virginia.

Kentucky has one