Under very rare conditions, Alzheimer’s disease may be transmitted
Five patients who got tainted growth hormone injections developed early Alzheimer’s decades later
High levels of the protein amyloid-beta — a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease — appear orange and purple in this brain scan of a man with the disease. Childhood exposure to the protein via contaminated growth hormone injections may have led the man to develop Alzheimer’s later in life.
G. Banerjee et al/Nature Medicine 2024