The Fatal Brain Disease is caused by Cannibalism

What is kuru?

Kuru is a rare and fatal nervous system disease. Its highest prevalence occurred during the 1950s and 1960s among the Fore people in the highlands of New Guinea. The Fore people contracted the disease by performing cannibalism on corpses during funeral rituals.

The name kuru means “to shiver” or “trembling in fear.” The symptoms of the disease include muscle twitching and loss of coordination. Other symptoms include difficulty walking, involuntary movements, behavioral and mood changes, dementia, and difficulty eating. The latter can cause malnutrition. Kuru has no known cure. It’s usually fatal within one year of contraction.

The identification and study of kuru helped along scientific research in a number of ways. It was the first neurodegenerative disease resulting from an infectious agent. It led to the creation of a new class of diseases including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker disease, and fatal familial insomnia. Today the study of kuru still impacts research on neurodegenerative diseases.

sauce : https://www.healthline.com/health/kuru

The article was just sick.

Read the actual article and not the clickbaity overreaction from the former Alex Jones employee. The article is essentially a book and movie review. It reads like the kind of high-end party conversation that someone desperate to sound interesting would bring up around other people equally desperate to be seen as interesting, rather than as ordinary mid-level managers or office moles that they are. It's a bunch of upper middle class people living empty lives and trying like hell to prove to themselves that they're daring and bold despite being mundane, insufferably boring order followers.

Sorry, I've been to too many of these parties where people feign interest in all sorts of random crap in order to make social connections, advance their careers, or just to seek attention after a few too many cocktails. It's all about being liked in this shallow world these people live in.

So what better way to grab attention than by talking openly and calmly about something taboo? You make it seem completely normal to do something obviously abnormal as a way, again, to make yourself stand out as interesting. You can only have so many friends who brag about their skydiving trips, or their second home, or the drugs they did at the concert. Who cares, right? You have to push the envelope, and no, saying you're into BDSM or you like threesomes isn't avant garde enough anymore for this crowd.

So, we get this.

It's no different than some stuffy Victorian era socialite gossiping about some newly discovered tribe of primitives deep in the jungles of Papua New Guinea that still engage in the practice. Oh, dear me, get the smelling salts for Mrs. Overton. She's feinted at the thought!