No kuru is just one form of prion disease that was found in one are. And from what I remember, it has never been found in other people, as it most likely developed as a sub-type of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
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WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agoI know you’re joking, but humans eating humans is how you get kuru disease. The only safe way to eat a person is to process them into Soylent Green first.
raltoid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
mfw I drink Soylent Vanilla
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saigot@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
If you don’t eat the brain you’ll have a much much lower risk (your link suggests about 9x less likely), and if the person you eat wasn’t a cannibal then your risk is lower still.
Also worth mentioning that Kuru is a specific disease for natives in Papua new guinea , and it only existed for about 100years and was going away on it’s own when the cannibalistic practice was outlawed.
I think the health risks of cannibalism is very exaggerated.
(this is not an endorsement of cannibalism)
Jumi@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m just gonna ignore your last sentence
drosophila@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Thanks for the cannibalism tips.