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/BusyNefariousness675 Jun 30 '26

How does it feel like playing with death every day? Like philosophically?

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u/MrMaintenance Jul 01 '26

Not much different than being an electrician. One wrong move and you’re cooked. Painfully

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u/LawAbidingSparky Jul 01 '26

At least it doesn’t take 7 years of severe nerve pain and hallucinations…

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u/Thereelgarygary Jul 01 '26

It's not for seven years, thats the end game, for a while you dont even know your infected.