minus-squareGal@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Russian Troops Accused of Cannibalism Amid Front Line Winter Food ShortageslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoIt 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. linkfedilink
minus-squareGal@lemmy.worldtoWorld News@lemmy.world•Russian Troops Accused of Cannibalism Amid Front Line Winter Food ShortageslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoEh, Kuru is an extinct disease, so it’ll be fine linkfedilink
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.