For example, Turing Pharmaceuticals' drug Daraprim, used to treat the parasitic infection toxoplasmosis that affects roughly 200,000 people a year, entered the market in 1953.
In the meantime, farmers are doing everything they can to mitigate the spread of the disease, including releasing a parasitic wasp native to Pakistan that kills the infection.
But unlike viruses, bacteria, fungi or parasitic infections which contain DNA or RNA, Prions don't, meaning they can't be killed with radiation or heat.
但与含有 DNA 或 RNA 的病毒、细菌、真菌或寄生虫感染不同,朊病毒不含有 DNA 或 RNA,这意着它们不能被辐射或热量杀死。