• CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world
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    24 hours ago

    Contagious means you can get it from direct or indirect contact with another person or organism that is infected. Not from eating them.

    That is not possible with prion disease.

    Ingesting a Petri dish full of flu virus doesn’t make the Petri dish ‘contagious’.