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The Fore tribe of the Eastern Highlands province of the south-east Asia nation once ritually consumed the brains of dead tribespeople, rapidly spreading a brain affliction similar to ‘mad cow disease’ that threatened to wipe out the population.
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www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacif...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/papuanewguinea/6603676/Brain-eating-tribe-could-help-find-treatment-for-mad-cow-disease.html
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In the middle of the 20th century the Fore tribe of the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea was devastated by a mad cow-like disease called kuru, which was passed on by mortuary feasts in which the brains of the dead were consumed.
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www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575811,00.html
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A Wisdom Archive on Fore tribe ... TSEs (also known as prion diseases) are caused by a unique type of infectious agent called prions, an abnormally-structured form of a protein found in the brain. ... On a primitive level, ritually eating part of the slaughtered enemy is a way of assuming the life-spirit of the departed.
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www.experiencefestival.com/fore_tribe
www.experiencefestival.com/fore_tribe
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Nobody knew why until scientists later figured it out: The women were eating the most infectious parts of a dead person's contaminated body -- the brain and nervous tissue. Before long, it was feared there wouldn't be enough of them left for the tribe to reproduce (men outnumbered women three-to-one in some villages).
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www.organicconsumers.org/madcow/cannibalism6301.cfm
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Note special subjects about Tiết canh (raw blood soup) and the Tribe people of Northern Vietnam among many others) ... Here are the old "Grow-a-Brain" Insect-eating links...
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growabrain.typepad.com/growabrain/entomophagy_insect_ea...
growabrain.typepad.com/growabrain/entomophagy_insect_eating/index.html
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though i doubt that your quantum brain is molting, your transition from third to fourth circuits is probably happening right where you are sitting now, i.e., using words and language (3rd circult) to communicate with others in this virtual tribe (3rd and 4th circuits).
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tribes.tribe.net/8-circuitbrain/thread/80dbb688-06ed-48...
tribes.tribe.net/8-circuitbrain/thread/80dbb688-06ed-48c7-a513-28c1ebd489f1
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Kuru was once found among the Fore tribe in Papua New Guinea whose rituals included eating the brain tissue of their recently deceased members of the tribe. Since this practice was halted, the disease has disappeared.
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users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Prion...
users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/P/Prions.html
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The human brain is more contaminated with prions than other body parts, though bone marrow, the spinal cord and the small intestine also contain these fatal brain-eating malformations. ... In the early 20th century, a [2] kuru epidemic devastated the Fore, a tribe of cannibals in the eastern highlands of Papua New Guinea.
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scienceline.org/2008/01/21/ask-stern-cannibal/print/
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In the middle of the 20th century, the Fore tribe of the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea was devastated by a CJD-like disease called kuru, which was passed on by mortuary feasts in which the brains ... ; RSS feed for comments on Brain-eating ritual in tribes trigger striking example of rapid human evolution...
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www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/brain-eating-ritual...
www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/brain-eating-ritual-in-tribes-trigger-striking-example-of-rapid-human-evolution_100276983.html
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