Which statement is NOT true about prion diseases?

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Prions are infectious proteins that have changed shape into a nonfunctional form and aggregated together, they also recruit other proteins to change to the nonfunctional shape. They result in degenerative diseases of the nervous system. Part of the reason that prions are so startling is that they are single molecules and not living organisms as most disease causing agents are. Even the nonliving viruses that cause many diseases do contain some kind of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) while prions are simply proteins. One of the diseases cause by prions is mad cow disease (BSE) which can be transmitted to humans through the consumption of the meat of infected cattle. No amount of cooking or any other treatment of the meat of the infected cow will destroy the prions. In humans this disease is also known as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.Bloom's

Which Statement Is NOT True About Prion Diseases