Am I at risk of CJD from accidentally ingesting a horse snivel 8 years ago?

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People only get it from beef. Your worries about this are all out of proportion to the risk. You are twice as likely to get hit by lightning as you are to get CJD. You are more likely to win a big lottery prize than to get CJD.
 
During a carnival some 8 years ago, I was standing next to a horse someone was riding. He was eating something, and you could see a white snivel from his mouth. He got nervous probably because of many people (his eyes were watering too, maybe) Once he opened them he sprinkled the snivel all around and since my mouth were open, I managed to swallow a bit of it.

Should I be afraid of contracting CJD?
 
I get it.

Oh, just one more question. If instead of horse in my example we had "beef" (with CJD let's say), would ingesting a beef snivel (how this sound funny) make someone get CJD, or only if he would eat meat?
 
No, you would have to eat a substantial quantity of infected brain or nervous system tissue. The infectious agent is not present in saliva.

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Thanks a lot :)

Meaning that even "if" the horse had a prion disease, ingesting a snivel (which tastes awfully, I still remeraber lol) wouldn't cause CJD in me?
 
No, you would have to eat a substantial quantity of infected brain or nervous system tissue. The infectious agent is not present in snivel.
 
One more thing on this subject (was thinking about it).

My best childhood friend's grandfather died from something which does sound like neurodegenerative disease (like CJD, don't know if it's really that). I remeraber him telling me that he "can't recognize his daughter, himself, he has difficulties with memory, can't even properly go to the toilet, etc....), but as to now I didn't notice (or he didn't tell me) that someone else died from this same thing.

If this was CJD, will he get it as well? And if I was in contact with his blood (not his grandfather's but the blood of that friend of mine), not by transfusion, but something like.....(example) I drank from the glass he drank from, and that glass had a bit of blood as his lips were bleeding, am I at risk of getting this?

Also when we had a systematical examination in school, when they were taking blood from us for checking, and if there is a risk, then all people which got their blood out after him (that is, if they used the same needle) are at risk for contracting CJD

What is the risk?

I don't even know if his grandfather had CJD, but I am guessing if it was....
 
And another question

Is it easy to get CJD from humans? Could you get it if you (for example) drank from a glass from which a person with CJD drank too?
 
SO you can't get CJD not even from blood of the one who has it?

And the only way to get it is from surgery basically?

I heard there were some cases where they developed CJD and they had some transfusions, but I guess that is very common (I mean to have transfusions), and it is not like they got it from someone's blood or...?
 
Oh yes, and is it possible to get it through milk and milk products (chocolate...) of potentially infected cows?
 
Sleep deprivation eventually causes paranoia. If you're heavily sleep deprived, and it sounRAB like you are based on your other thread, that could be what's causing you to write about all these unusual diseases here.

I went through long perioRAB of insomnia before and I know what this is like. Unfortunately, the only solution is to get some sleep, or find some other way to help you relax, at least.
 
No it's not about that.

I am only kind of worried if his grandfather died of CJD, and I was in direct contact (not transfusion) with the blood of that friend of mine whose grandfather died from ....something I think "may" be CJD according to some symptoms (however he died of brain attack at the end as they said).

Should I be afraid, what is a theoretical risk?
 
You don't get CJD from casual contact with an infected person. You would have to be in a hospital where the person was getting surgery on their brain, and then the surgeon would have to use the same instruments to do brain surgery on you. Then you might have a risk of getting CJD. It's very difficult to transmit CJD. You don't get CJD from blood. The CJD is not in the blood.
 
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