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Published 7 years ago by sjvn with 2 Comments
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When People Ate People, A Strange Disease Emerged

For decades, a rare disease crawled across Papua New Guinea. When scientists realized what was behind kuru, it caught everyone by surprise. But similar diseases can still be transmitted through food.

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  • Gozzin
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    Ah yes,I read of this years ago. Right creepy.

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  • sashinator
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    But it wasn't a virus [...], it was just a twisted protein, [...] compelling normal proteins on the surface of nerve cells to contort just like them.

    So not a virus but rather a pathogen which behaves just like a virus?

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