• RegularJoe@lemmy.world
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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)

    Kuru is a rare, incurable, and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. It is a prion disease which leads to tremors and loss of coordination from neurodegeneration. The term kúru means “trembling” and comes from the Fore word kuria or guria (“to shake”).[3][4] It is also known as “laughing sickness” due to abnormal bursts of laughter from the patients.

    It was spread among the Fore people via funerary cannibalism.

    Mad cow for people.