You Can “Catch” Alzheimer’s Disease

Alzheimer’s isn’t contagious — at least, in the sense that you can’t catch it from being around somebody who has it. But, it turns out, it is transmissible, just not directly.

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http://www.nature.com/articles/doi:10.1038/nature15369
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