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Old 09-17-2005, 08:47 PM
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Originally posted by AUSTIN316426808
Well you've obviously read all about it so...

What diseases can be caught from eating human brains?

And how exactly did they find out that we're immune to it?
Most notably, kuru, which is from the eating of human infected tissue. It's a progressive disease of the central nervous system which people often have less than a year to live once symtoms start to occur. Also known as laughing sickness due to the outbursts of laughter that occur in the second phase of the disease. It's pretty much like Mad cow disease for people. :)

It's believed to have only existed for ten or twenty years though (starting in the 50's) which is also extremely weird.
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