[UA] Cannibalism

[Rich Ranallo]

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  In a message dated 9/19/03 12:31:39 PM Central Daylight Time, omnimancer at yahoo.com writes:

  Huh. Only cannibalism related illness I know of is kuru. It's a prion, that comes from eating human brains. Also called "Laughing sickness." But it's not generally associated with men, but with women and children in societies where cannibalism is regularly practiced; the brains are leftovers.
That's the same thing as (the horribly misspelled) Crudzfeldt-Jakob disease, and pretty much the sme thing as Mad Cow disease (except that the latter is the bovine variety).

>From Whom It May Concern,
Rich Ranallo

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