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What podcasts say about Kuru
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What experts have said about Kuru
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Kuru transmission is associated with eating uncooked brain tissue.
“That's right, eating the uncooked brain.”
Open the episode · #2549 - Jared DiamondListen at 2:06:01
Kuru likely spread among the Fore after one person’s Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease entered cannibalistic transmission.
“it's all thought to have arisen with one foray person who had quite full Yakut and died of it in around 1910, but was then eaten by others who were in turn eaten still by others, so that kuru, Kwetschuel jakob, then exploded among the Fore.”
Open the episode · #2549 - Jared DiamondListen at 2:09:40
Kuru deaths continued until 2009 despite funeral feasts ending in 1959.
“The last death due to Kuru was in 2009. The last funeral feast was 1959.”
Open the episode · #2549 - Jared DiamondListen at 2:14:46
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