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My understanding is that there is some evidence that Alzheimer's is transmissible (e.g. higher rate of incidence in caregivers and neurosurgeons), but more study is needed.


A study showed that if they wired two mice's circulatory systems together, one with Alzheimer's and one without, the second one would eventually develop everyone's favorite brain plaques.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2151909-alzheimers-may-...

So while wiring together two bloodstreams is a bit extreme, and likely to result in most things being transmissible, there's nonzero evidence that you can have a bad day from a blood transfusion.


There's also been observations of particularly large amounts of certain human herpes viruses in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.




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