That doesn’t seem very likely from my reading. It sounds like it’s not unheard of for prion-diseases like Creutzfeldt-Jakob to take a while to destroy a person. The poor lady fta apparently had a genetic component that contributed to the latency. Brutal. Inducing dormancy in this and similar cases would effectively present a treatment, if not a cure, to an hereto untreatable, uncurable disease.
> … the woman first visited doctors with tremors and trouble balancing. As is often the case, once symptoms started, her condition rapidly worsened. She was hospitalized … and several days into her stay, she fell into a coma that she would never awaken from.
In other news, apparently hgh used to be extracted from cadavers. Wtlf.
To be honest, it's a bit comforting to know that it happened quickly. Better in some ways than a long, slow degradation of the mind from which there's no recovery.
