Cannibalism Is Bad for Your Health, Scientists Find

Lol has the world run out of things to study?

Kuru is a rare, fatal, and incurable neurodegenerative brain disorder caused by an infectious, misfolded protein known as a prion. It was historically prevalent among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea and spread through ritualistic cannibalism of deceased relatives' brains.

It is essentially mad cow disease. If you eat your own kind your brain gets all mushy.

You don't need mathematical models for this.
 
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