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Did Eating Brains Help Tribe Become Disease Resistant?
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11.06.2015
Research into a former brain-eating tribe from Papua New Guinea has helped identify a gene that might make people resistant to the brain eating disease CJD. People of the Fore tribe, studied by scientists from Britain and Papua New Guinea, have developed genetic resistance to a mad cow-like disease called kuru, which was spread mostly by the now abandoned ritual of eating relatives' brains at funerals.
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