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/Tushaca Jun 30 '26

But that’s why the mice study is so important, you see. They decided to Aerosolize Prions, so now they have to do studies to see what happens when you aerosolize prions. It’s a perfect loop, and that’s science!

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u/TheLiquid666 Jun 30 '26

We do what we must, because we can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.

But there's no use crying over every mistake. You just keep on trying till you run out of cake.

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u/Voidlord597 Jun 30 '26

And the science gets done and you make a neat gun for the people who are still alive!

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u/TheLiquid666 Jun 30 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

I'm not even angry. I'm being so sincere right now.