Kuru

... I personally find it difficult to objectively justify that this behavior is wrong besides it being irrational, yet when a prion disease called kuru was found to be causing serious illness in the tribes due to the consumption of human brain, one could effectively argue that the practice was ...

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... Disease" by Colm A. Kelleher, Ph. D., released in 2005? Most interesting forensic medicine exploration re. the importation of infectious kuru into North American from New Guinea fifty years ago, where numerous mammals (including hamsters) were deliberatedly infected with prion disease ...

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As for drinking blood I don't know, but in new Guinea, ritual cannibalism is suuposed to be the causeof the spread of a prion disease named Kuru.

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The fore Fore-people in New Guinea, an isolated, primitive peoples engaged in a ritualistic, cannibal rite following death. This causes kuru, a disease caused by prion. :x

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... small molecullar weight(~30kda). The desease usually affects the CNS and has a very low evolution(years). It usually results in death. Deseases: Kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob, fatal family insomnia, mad cow desease, Gerstmann-Straussler syndrome *remembering over*

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