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Why does consuming the flesh of another human make us ill and catch kuru but we can still eat other animals?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

Kuru: Kuru has been spread through funerary cannibalism in the Fore tribe. The prion that causes this spongiform encephalopathy is found in humans. Evidently other primates are capable of being infected.

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Answered 5/18/2015

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