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Alzheimer’s may have once spread from person to person, but the risk of that happening today is incredibly low

  • Written by Steve Macfarlane, Head of Clinical Services, Dementia Support Australia, & Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Monash University
Alzheimer’s may have once spread from person to person, but the risk of that happening today is incredibly lowAtthapon Raksthaput/Shutterstock

An article published this week in the prestigious journal Nature Medicine documents what is believed to be the first evidence that Alzheimer’s disease can be transmitted from person to person.

The finding arose from long-term follow up of patients who received human growth hormone (hGH) that was taken from...

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