"Prion aggregates are stable, and this structural stability means that prions are resistant to denaturation by chemical and physical agents: they cannot be destroyed by ordinary disinfection or cooking."
There are many, many reasons we don't do a cannibalism.
Agreed, the other quote of note I kinda deliberately left out: "All known prion diseases in mammals affect the structure of the brain or other neural tissue; all are progressive, have no known effective treatment, and are always fatal."
They will mess with your brain, they will do it slowly and agonizingly, and they will, without exception, eventually kill. Prions are scary as hell.
I wonder what will go through this guys head when he is told Comrade Prion is coming for him. "Wait what did you just say? No not the deadly brain disease stuff, this shit is politically progressive too? Fuck me."
Depends. Kuru was observed to most likely effect people who ate brain, but mad cow disease is known to spread evenly throughout an infected cow's tissues.
I remember reading about Funeral Cannibalism in a South american (?) tribe where the brain is the part eaten most of the time along with other softer tissues. There are a common disease called the "laughing disease" affecting people who practice the rite
"Prion aggregates are stable, and this structural stability means that prions are resistant to denaturation by chemical and physical agents: they cannot be destroyed by ordinary disinfection or cooking."
There are many, many reasons we don't do a cannibalism.
Prions are absolutely, fucking terrifying.
Agreed, the other quote of note I kinda deliberately left out: "All known prion diseases in mammals affect the structure of the brain or other neural tissue; all are progressive, have no known effective treatment, and are always fatal."
They will mess with your brain, they will do it slowly and agonizingly, and they will, without exception, eventually kill. Prions are scary as hell.
I wonder what will go through this guys head when he is told Comrade Prion is coming for him. "Wait what did you just say? No not the deadly brain disease stuff, this shit is politically progressive too? Fuck me."
Prions
simply don't eat people
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I don't know I wasn't eating people already for various social, moral, and legal taboos so it's never come up
Depends. Kuru was observed to most likely effect people who ate brain, but mad cow disease is known to spread evenly throughout an infected cow's tissues.
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If someone ate a Mad Cow prion it'll be in their blood
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Vore hobbyists btfo
I remember reading about Funeral Cannibalism in a South american (?) tribe where the brain is the part eaten most of the time along with other softer tissues. There are a common disease called the "laughing disease" affecting people who practice the rite