The truth behind the "catching Alzheimer’s" story

[Alex_Thompson]

After last week’s poor news headlines, including one that claimed “You can catch Alzheimer’s,” it has been great to see many organisation and news outlets responding to correct this misreporting. Here are some links to these corrections:

NHS Behind the Headlines:

nhs.uk/news/2015/09Septembe...

The Alzheimer's Society Science Behind the Headlines alzheimers.org.uk/site/scri...

Sense About Science For The record

senseaboutscience.org/resou...

Buzzfeed

buzzfeed.com/kellyoakes/the...

Dementia UK Research Response

dementiauk.org/news/view/id...

Sky News

news.sky.com/story/1550080/...

WebMD

webmd.com/alzheimers/news/2...

Which do you think did the best job and why?