i hate when people latch onto something without actually doing any research into it, especially when it’s something Im passionate about. Like I was thinking today about kuru and how people always seem to try and say someone has it if theyre a cannibal or suspected to be ( there was a whole debate on tik tok that Epstein had kuru…. It was stupid).You know why they said that?? Because when you look up “ what diseases can you get from cannibalism” it’s the first thing that pops up!! except if these dipshits did any research at all into kuru theyd know that it doesn’t even exist anymore and only ever existed in Papua New Guinea and Epstein specifically wouldn’t have been showing signs because it has an incredibly long incubation period and as far as we know he’d never been to Papua New Guinea. The chances of Epstein or any famous cannibal having kuru is very very little and more likely NONE. You don’t get prion diseases just by eating people, theyre more likes gotten from eating the brain or spinal cord and even then theyre incredibly rare and If prions are present theyd be all over BECAUSE theyre on the surface of a lot of cells . that said IF and that’s a very big IF any famous cannibal had a prion diseases it would more likely be Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease (CJD) but that’s also incredibly unlikely because it’s not even the cannibalism that causes these diseases it just lets them spread easier and you don’t usually get cjd from cannibalism its usually from contamination or sporadic and if you get it from anything you get it from an infected cow ( more about that at the end). IF ANYTHING anyone found to be a cannibal probably has no prion diseases at all BECAUSE THEYRE RARE AND NOT JUST CAUSED BY CANNIBALISM AND ARE ONLY PRESENT BECAUSE OF MIS-FOLDED PROTEINS IN THE BRAIN. I HATE HATE HATE how kuru is randomly thrown out when cannibalism is brought up or even referenced especially when it’s used to try and explain the behaviors of killers or pedos or jist thrown out because cannibalism was mentioned. no not all cannibals have kuru or any prion diseases for that matter . No, no one can get kuru anymore unless they restart the funeral practice of eating their relatives brains in Papua New Guinea or someone there has been carrying it all this time and starts showing symptoms , and yes I am very upset about its misrepresentation because fuck you. also no people can’t have Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy ( Mad Cow) if they eat a cow infected with it they get Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease ( vCJD) NOT MAD COW GGRRGRGRRRRRRRREHSHAHHSHDH HATE IN MY HEART
(TLDR: cannibals don’t have kuru stop saying that pls)
I may come back and fix this later, I’m kind of spewing so if something isn’t entirely correct ignore it till I can or comment abt it
