transmissible spongiform encephalopathy

I'd be happy to read you what I know about chronic wasting disease.

So chronic wasting disease belongs to a group of fatal conditions called... transmutable spongiform encephalopathy, TSEs, or otherwise known as prion diseases.

It's caused by prions, which are misfolded proteins in the brain.

It's 100% fatal, so the deer will die eventually, but problems is it can be transmitted to another animal if the animal eats the deer.

Regarding Creutzfeldt-Jakob, which is, um, a very sad disease, it causes spongiform encephalopathy and it's, it's terrible.

But anyway, as of today, according to the most recent FDA guidance on reprocessing medical devices, the FDA has not approved or cleared any technologies for reducing TSE agents or transformable spongiform encephalopathy agents.

They haven't cleared anything yet.

So this is why some IFUs or most IFUs in the US, they'll recommend that if a device is suspected to have come in contact with TSE, incinerate it.

That's, that's typically the, the recommendation.

Now in the EU, they actually recommend reprocessing the medical device even if it, if it has been suspected exposure to TSE.

But watch this.

Their recommendations is to soak the product in an alkaline environment.

They're often found in the brain.

So famous prion diseases are BSE, which is Bovine, uh, Spongiform Encephalitis, which means basically your brain is a sponge because it has so many holes in it because you have prion disease.

It's mad cow.

Mad cow.