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.
I think it is something that happens naturally every so often, and eating brains is a trigger for it if not the only one. Like cows will naturally get mad cow disease every so often naturally or something like that it might be different than the spread stuff.
Yeah it’s just a protein growing weird and then it replicates and messes everything up. And if you eat the weird protein your body is like oh yeah I guess I can make proteins like this oh whoops guess this causes a problem
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.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 27 Apr 13:01
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That makes it even worse. Pretty hard to diagnose wtf is happening if it can take half a century to hit. Imagine you’re just eating some brains as a healthy 15 year old and then boom, kuru 20 years later. You barely got to be an adult and you’re dying because of… Nothing! Nobody knows!
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
on 27 Apr 22:32
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Oh shit, I didn’t know that was real. I thought it was made up in The Book of Eli…
StillAlive@piefed.world
on 27 Apr 11:57
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The Russian famine of 1921–1922, also known as the Povolzhye famine (Russian: Голод в Поволжье ‘Volga region famine’), was a severe famine in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic that began early in the spring of 1921 and lasted until 1922. The famine resulted from the combined effects of severe drought,[1] the continued effects of World War I, economic disturbance from the Russian Revolution, the Russian Civil War, and failures in the government policy of war communism (especially prodrazvyorstka). It was exacerbated by rail systems that could not distribute food efficiently.
The famine killed an estimated five million people and primarily affected the Volga and Ural River regions.[2] Many of the starving resorted to cannibalism.[3][4][5]
EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world
on 27 Apr 13:02
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Is this counter-propaganda?
Interesting that a Ukrainian source is claiming cannibalism on the Russian side after an article showing Ukrainian soldiers starved at their posts for months because the Ukrainian army is so short-staffed that they can’t reliably rotate their soldiers.
CannonFodder@lemmy.world
on 27 Apr 14:08
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Possibly, but probaly not. I don’t begrudge the Russian soldiers for resorting to cannibalism - the dead don’t need their bodies and if there are no supplies, you gotta eat somehow. It’s Putin and the weak Russians who let him do this to their own people for no good reason (as well as to other people), that’s who is to blame a deserve to die horribly over a million times.
And while I wouldn’t be suprised if the Ukrainian army has a difficult time staffing proper rotations, the case you refer to was about trapped Ukrainian soldiers who were unable to get supplied due to drones attacking supply routes. They could only get supplies via drones, and every time they did that, it risked giving away their exact location. War is horrible. Russia needs to fuck off and leave Ukraine.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)
Mad cow for people.
tl;dr - don’t eat brains
The zombies are NOT gonna like this
Braaaain! 😡
Why do you think the zombies shamble around…laughing uncontrollably?
Betcha can’t just eat one
vertebrae
Eh, Kuru is an extinct disease, so it’ll be fine
Do you know if it’s eradicated or if we just stopped eating brains?
I think it is something that happens naturally every so often, and eating brains is a trigger for it if not the only one. Like cows will naturally get mad cow disease every so often naturally or something like that it might be different than the spread stuff.
Yeah it’s just a protein growing weird and then it replicates and messes everything up. And if you eat the weird protein your body is like oh yeah I guess I can make proteins like this oh whoops guess this causes a problem
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.
Prions are terrifying
You must consume additional prions!
That’s why I’m getting a different Toyota
Zombies, did younkbow Jesus was the first
That or you turn into a wendigo.
I knew about Kuru but I didn’t know this:
That makes it even worse. Pretty hard to diagnose wtf is happening if it can take half a century to hit. Imagine you’re just eating some brains as a healthy 15 year old and then boom, kuru 20 years later. You barely got to be an adult and you’re dying because of… Nothing! Nobody knows!
Oh shit, I didn’t know that was real. I thought it was made up in The Book of Eli…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921%E2%80%931922
This is why it’s always worth having fat neighbours who can’t run or shoot.
I see you like your human marbled.
The Mobik Cube provides.
Is this counter-propaganda?
Interesting that a Ukrainian source is claiming cannibalism on the Russian side after an article showing Ukrainian soldiers starved at their posts for months because the Ukrainian army is so short-staffed that they can’t reliably rotate their soldiers.
Possibly, but probaly not. I don’t begrudge the Russian soldiers for resorting to cannibalism - the dead don’t need their bodies and if there are no supplies, you gotta eat somehow. It’s Putin and the weak Russians who let him do this to their own people for no good reason (as well as to other people), that’s who is to blame a deserve to die horribly over a million times.
And while I wouldn’t be suprised if the Ukrainian army has a difficult time staffing proper rotations, the case you refer to was about trapped Ukrainian soldiers who were unable to get supplied due to drones attacking supply routes. They could only get supplies via drones, and every time they did that, it risked giving away their exact location. War is horrible. Russia needs to fuck off and leave Ukraine.
I was just wondering; a whole thread without a ruskie troll and then I found you comment what a relief
I’ve played enough DayZ to know you just gotta eat a bit of charcoal and you’ll be fine to continue consuming your fellow comrade.
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“Food shortages? Nah, we just like it”
Russian troops, probably.
I mean common. Who in war isn’t a little tempted by a bit of man meat.
Looks like gopnik is back on the menu, gopniks!
“Gopnik Kyiv”.
If they were already dead I don’t have a problem with it. If you’re starving you gotta do what you gotta do.
I bet they prepared it with Russian dressing.