Alzheimer's Transmissible Under Rare Conditions

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Skeptics Question Transmissible Alzheimer's Claims

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Five U.K. patients treated with human growth hormone from cadaveric pituitary glands later developed early dementia or other changes consistent with Alzheimer's disease.

Study fueled debates in the Alzheimer's research community, which we discuss in this follow-up story.

The findings did not mean that Alzheimer's could be transmitted between people during daily activities or routine medical care.

NIH overseeing surveillance of 7,700 individuals who received cadaveric human growth hormone in the 1960s , 1970s , and early 1980s .

Collinge maintains that his 2024 paper is sound.

"With the greatest of respect to these authors, we are describing a new condition, iatrogenic Alzheimer's disease," he says.

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