Alzheimer's disease found to be transmitted through medical procedures decades ago, study finds
Researchers emphasized that dementia is "not contagious" and these were "extraordinary occurrences."
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Researchers emphasized that dementia is "not contagious" and these were "extraordinary occurrences."
A study had found five people who'd been injected with now-banned growth treatments in the 1980s had gone on to develop early-onset dementia.
Researchers say they've documented the first ever cases of Alzheimer's disease being transmitted between humans — though they note this only occurs in extremely rare and unusual circumstances. Their findings, published as a study in the journal Nature Medicine, detail how eight adult patients likely acquired the disease through a banned medical procedure performed on […]
There is growing evidence suggesting that a medical treatment used between 1959 and 1985 could potentially be linked to the development of Alzheimer's disease.
The study provides the first evidence of Alzheimer's disease in living people that appears to have been medically acquired and due to transmission of the amyloid-beta protein.