Ukraine’s Military Intelligence has shared evidence with The Sunday Times, including photographs and intercepted audio messages allegedly exchanged between senior Russian officers.
It was a prion disease that was only contracted in the Fore people. The only way to get it was to be born with it or eat someone with the disease. So once people there stopped cannibalism, the disease began to disappear.
I think it is something that happens naturally every so often, and eating brains is a trigger for it if not the only one. Like cows will naturally get mad cow disease every so often naturally or something like that it might be different than the spread stuff.
Yeah it’s just a protein growing weird and then it replicates and messes everything up. And if you eat the weird protein your body is like oh yeah I guess I can make proteins like this oh whoops guess this causes a problem
Eh, Kuru is an extinct disease, so it’ll be fine
Do you know if it’s eradicated or if we just stopped eating brains?
It was a prion disease that was only contracted in the Fore people. The only way to get it was to be born with it or eat someone with the disease. So once people there stopped cannibalism, the disease began to disappear.
I think it is something that happens naturally every so often, and eating brains is a trigger for it if not the only one. Like cows will naturally get mad cow disease every so often naturally or something like that it might be different than the spread stuff.
Yeah it’s just a protein growing weird and then it replicates and messes everything up. And if you eat the weird protein your body is like oh yeah I guess I can make proteins like this oh whoops guess this causes a problem
CJD can just… Randomly occur in people. It’s literally bad luck if a protein misfolds and then you suffer and die.
Kuru is like that.