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 cause neurodegenerative disease by. aggregating extracellularly within the central nervous system to form plaques known as amyloid, which disrupt the normal tissue structure. This disruption is characterized by 'holes' in the tissue with resultant spongy architecture due to the vacuole formation in the neurons.rion propagation/reproduction. by transmitting a mis-folded protein state; as with viruses the protein itself does not self-replicate, rather it induces existing polypeptides in the host organism to take on the rogue form.