When she was 23, a lab worker pricked her thumb in an experiment with prion-infected mice. She died 10 years later

Emilie Jaumain died in 2019 at the age of 33. She had Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), a fatal brain disease. Jaumain accidentally pricked her thumb with lab equipment that had been exposed to prion-infected mice when she was 23.

There was another case of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease this year in France — a retired lab worker who worked with prions. — Read the rest