Why England has so much prion disease

[Archimedes Plutonium]

Yesterday I wrote:
> On a related note. Has any prion disease ever occurred in sheep in
> dry climates? Or have all prion diseases occurred in rather wet places
> such as England, kuru tropics of Asia, etc. Perhaps the most likely
> suspect of the encephalopathy is a fungus or plant form of transposon
> disease.

This Nobel mistake prize for prion disease has me
wheeling-into-action. I think I perhaps may have a clue here as to what
virus causes the spongiform brain diseases. The prion proteins, unlike
the Prusiner theory, is just a Byproduct of the virus. But it may not
be a virus rather instead a fungus. Or it may be the virus of a fungus.
Yesterday I posted several Fungal Viruses information. Nothing like a
Nobel mistake to call me to attention.

I need to know if the ant that is attacked by Cordyceps Ascomycetes:
Clavicipitacea have a prion protein type of brain structure? Has anyone
researched this thoroughly?

Since fungus have hyphal fusion structure, is that related to the
prion protein structure. Are prion proteins the hyphal fusions in human
brains. And if this is true then Alzheimers is related.

If a fungus or fungus virus is the cause of prion diseases, then I
would like to know why England is so full of prion diseases?
If true I suspect the reason that England is misfortunate in all the
prion diseases is because England is a wet climate where fungus love to
live. And moreso, the fact that England in the past history has roamed
the world and brought back to England many varieties of tropical
species including fungal species.

Does anyone know if sheep scrapie is more abundant in England than
elsewhere? Can someone cite the first case of sheep scrapie ever found
in England? Perhaps sheep scrapie history can be pinpointed to some
Darwin type expedition that brought back a fungus from the tropics.

Does anyone know if sheep scrapie has ever been reported in a dry or
desert like climate, not counting imported English sheep that may
already have been fungal contaminated.

Come to think of it, it seems kind of odd that England and none of
the rest of Europe has this prion disease type of problem. This may
indicate that the fungus or fungus virus that causes prion disease was
first introduced into England and from England it spread.

Note that a fungal infection can be heritable!!

I have not kept up with the science history of diseases such as
syphilus. One time I remember books saying that syphilus was introduced
into Europe from the New World by Columbus's sailors. Then some
discounted that epidemiology. And in my own time, some science
epidemiologists claim that monkeys or apes introduced the AIDS virus
into humanity. Seems as though these types of reports are good guesses
but can seldom be proven. IF a fungal virus or a fungus is the root
cause of spongiform brain diseases then a tracer back in past history
can be researched. And perhaps the reason England has so much
spongiform is because she was a Naturalist collecter of bringing home
so many varieties of foreign plants from the tropics, with her Kew
Gardens etc. It may just well have been that sheep scrapie was first
observed in England shortly after some Naturalist to the tropics
(Darwin) introduced tropical plants into England.