Among the problems of genetically-close meat are diseases that survive the death of the host. Such diseases can jump to a new host, if the meat is eaten. Furthermore, in the case of kuru and other viruses, the disease isn't destroyed by boiling. Accordingly, the kuru disease, once it infested the Fore people, was virulent, given their practice of ritualistic cannibalism. Fore women cut up the bodies of their deceased to eat them, rather than have the worms and maggots do so. Perhaps they initiated this practice before the kuru disease entered their population. Then, upon the entry and spread of the disease, eating the brains of the deceased was death. Most of the young women of the tribe died off, as did many of the children. The older male children who joined the men of the tribe escaped death. The tribal leaders blamed witchcraft. A systematic search revealed the problem to be ritualistic cannibalism. Ending the practice, ended the scourge. But, not for Joe Biden. In his cracked mind, the idea of cannibalism took hold. It was like his encounter with Corn Pop, his son being killed in Iraq, or his million miles on AMTRAK. Hopefully, the Vice President keeps him away from the nuclear football.
The problem of these New Guinea cannibals was widely publicized in 1959. Just in time for Biden's imaginative mind. (No, he's problem isn't recent. He's been a story-teller and an outright liar all his life.)
To be sure, there were Japanese in New Guinea and the Philippines, mostly prison guards, who engaged in cannibalism. But, Joe the Prevaricator talks about New Guinea cannibals. What else is there to connect his story?
As for Joe's uncle, he died over the ocean. 2nd Lt. Ambrose J. Finnegan, Jr. of Scranton, Pa., was a courier aboard a plane heading from Los Negros Island to Morobe, on the coast of New Guinea, on July 14, 1944. Forty minutes into the flight, both engines failed, and the plane ditched into the sea. Two search planes were dispatched, but to no avail. There is no need to embellish on the story. The man died in the service of his country.
Maybe that’s what happened to Uncle Bosey.
Indy flick “We are what we are” very disturbing, but premise is the matriarch dies from a brain disease brought on by cannibalism.
They would be doing a much greater service to humanity if they would study the brain malady affecting elected officials in Washington, DC.
I thought Kuru could be prevented by pairing the brains with a nice chianti.