...A Virus Called HTLV-1 From 1500-Year-Old Mummies Infected 40 Percent of Adults In Rural Australia

techtimes.com ^ | 7 May 2018, 2:11 pm EDT | Steven Lerner

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Stole my thunder :)

[blam]

"Eating your ancestors to grant them vicarious lives and to gain their powers?"

Eating Brains: Cannibal Tribe Evolved Resistance To Fatal Disease

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"So 1500 years ago somebody had sex with the mummy to be in the Andes and then made their way to the remote Australian region and had promiscuous sex with the aborigines? "

The travelers traded food for sex?

How The Sweet Potato Crossed The Pacific Way Before The Europeans Did

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In the South Pacific islands of Melanesia and Borneo, there is a retrovirus that works very much like HIV, and is called “Kuru” or the “shaking sickness”.

It has been traced to the practice of the ceremonial eating of a deceased relatives brains.

This may or may not be related, but it has a ring of similarity based upon the location, and ethnic origins of the people involved.

Of course, I wouldn’t want to be “judgemental” of indigenous religious or cultural practices....it just rang a bell.

If, indeed this were the origin of this pathogen, it would be considered very culturally insensitive and politically incorrect to even mention it!

[GOP Poet]

Stole my thunder :)

Only 'cause you were late to the mummy thread. ;D

[GOP Poet]

or more pointedly sex with mummy thread. lol

[eldoradude]

Yeah. You got me. Who had sex with the mummy?

The Daddy.