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Cannibalism Is Bad for Your Health, Scientists Find
Cannibalism became taboo in human societies not out of instinctive aversion but because it is harmful to populations who practise it, scientists from Poland and the Czech Republic have found.
Michal Misiak of the University of Wroclaw and Petr Turecek of Charles University in Prague used a mathematical model to show that the long-term practice of cannibalism can lead to population collapse by causing illnesses in those who eat other people.....
...."From a caloric perspective, a person turns out to be an average meal ... The key problem, however, lies elsewhere: the risk of infection. Pathogens have an easier task because they end up in an organism with almost identical physiology."....
....Their model shows the risk of disease rises exponentially when cannibals consume other cannibals, as even cooking does not eliminate prions, or misfolded proteins, that can cause fatal neurological diseases.
One of these, kuru, was once common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea, who cooked and ate their deceased relatives, believing they were freeing the spirit of the dead person.....
Cannibalism Is Bad for Your Health, Scientists Find
https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/cannibalism-bad-your-health-scientists-find-2026a1000mgc?ecd=a2a
Cannibalism Is Bad for Your Health, Scientists Find
Cannibalism became taboo in human societies not out of instinctive aversion but because it is harmful to populations who practise it, scientists from Poland and the Czech Republic have found.
Michal Misiak of the University of Wroclaw and Petr Turecek of Charles University in Prague used a mathematical model to show that the long-term practice of cannibalism can lead to population collapse by causing illnesses in those who eat other people.....
...."From a caloric perspective, a person turns out to be an average meal ... The key problem, however, lies elsewhere: the risk of infection. Pathogens have an easier task because they end up in an organism with almost identical physiology."....
....Their model shows the risk of disease rises exponentially when cannibals consume other cannibals, as even cooking does not eliminate prions, or misfolded proteins, that can cause fatal neurological diseases.
One of these, kuru, was once common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea, who cooked and ate their deceased relatives, believing they were freeing the spirit of the dead person.....
Cannibalism Is Bad for Your Health, Scientists Find
https://www.medscape.com/s/viewarticle/cannibalism-bad-your-health-scientists-find-2026a1000mgc?ecd=a2a
