🎙️ Episode 3: Prions – The Cows Are Mad
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🎙️ Episode 3: Prions – The Cows Are Mad
They say madness spreads like wildfire… but what if it spreads like dinner?
In this chilling third installment of Mutant Hollow, we’re diving headfirst into the strange, stomach-churning, and scientifically horrifying world of prions—rogue, misshapen proteins that turn brains into sponge-like death traps. These microscopic nightmares are behind some of history’s most terrifying outbreaks, from Mad Cow Disease in the UK to the human form known as variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease. They can jump between species, hide in your body for decades before striking, and survive almost anything we throw at them. Fire? Nope. Radiation? Nope. Bleach? Ha—don’t make them laugh. (If they could.)
We’ll peel back the sinister layers of the mad cow scandal:
- How cattle ...