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by SketchySeaBeast 1244 days ago
What is the standard rate of prion disease?
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> Prion diseases are rare. About 300 cases are reported each year in the U.S.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

So, vanishingly rare. Enough to be an irrelevance.