Last week’s topic of Prion disease was very interesting to me, especially everything that was yet unknown about it and why it occurs. A seemingly healthy person suddenly begins to exhibit strange symptoms that have no obvious cause. Even though science has made many leaps in the study of genetics, Prion disease reminds us that we do not know everything about the human body as evidenced by the seemingly spontaneous malformation of prions that lead to Prion disease.
We see similar instances of unknown illnesses, whose existence are sometimes only revealing themselves to us now. This brings into question what we expect of science and scientists, if they cannot give us the answers that we are looking for right away. It was also interesting to look at the disease at an anthropological level as a way to understand diseases and their occurrences outside of the human body.
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