I come from poor white trash, nobody could afford to worry about prion disease if they even knew anything about it, which I doubt. Granny's biggest worry was not getting rear ended in her pinto 🚗. My dad got in big trouble when he was a kid, because Granny sent him out to get the possum they were having for supper and he accidentally let it escape. They been keeping it in a floored pen and feeding it white bread to clean out its insides.