Agraphia Medical Tragicomedy

12Apr/072

Creutzfeld-Jacobs Disease

I wish I could take the credit for this brilliant analogy, but I can't.

CJD is just like the underpants gnomes*.

Step 1) ingest protein
Step 2) ...
Step 3) profit!

Explanation:
Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease
South Park's Underpants Gnomes

For more particularly interesting reading on prion diseases, how you get them, and why you should never, ever eat Haggis, see this and this.

*Before I get reamed for being crass and heartless, I should point out that this analogy is about our understanding of the disease process, and not what it's like to get it.

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  1. Angela
    April 13th, 2007 - 08:01

    wait…what? Underpants gnomes and CJD? How are gnomes stealing underpants the same as proteins turning brains into sponges?

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  2. Angela
    April 14th, 2007 - 13:47

    Hey…what happened to your great header? The great Tragicomedy…it was awesome but not showing up. Could be my computer though.

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