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It's not necessarily impossible to target prions but it doesn't seem trivial. The reason they're dangerous is specifically the incorrect shape because that shape changes interaction behavior with other biological molecules, and immune cells could theoretically test for that change in interaction. But that's more complicated than regular molecule recognition which immune cells normally do. There's probably research in trying to make immune cells handle that too, but I haven't seen any articles about it.