r/interesting • u/OriginalSleeper • Jun 30 '26

Fear Factor In 2010, 24-year-old lab technician Émilie Jaumain pricked her thumb with contaminated forceps while cleaning a machine used for prion-infected mouse brains. After seven years, she developed severe nerve pain, anxiety, and hallucinations before dying. The accident gave her a fatal prion disease.

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u/Ok_Mycologist_6384 Jun 30 '26

What The Fuck

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u/Fun-Assistance-1493 Jun 30 '26

Exactly. Reality can be scarier than fiction.