In a city of 645,000, the Baltimore Department of Health estimates there are 60,000 drug addicts, with as many as 48,000 of them hooked on heroin. A federal report released last month puts the number of heroin addicts alone at 60,000.
Confidence votes 68. You can inactivate them, not kill them. They are technically not alive. Think of them more like a substance, a protein to be exact. household bleach will inactivate prions if left in a bleach/water solution for at least 30 minutes. the directions for this are under the prions topic on Wikipedia.rions are not eukaryotic. In fact, prions aren't even alive. They are merely an infectious protein, like a virus or a viroid. A commonly known prion is the mad cow disease.
Prions are extremely small, smaller than viruses, and even through an electron microscope only aggregations (clusters), not individual prions, can be seen. Prions are unique pathogens in that they appear to have no nucleic acid and thereby differ from viruses, bacteria, fungi and other pathogens. Prions are resistant to procedures that break down nucleic acid and destroy biological forms of pathogens.