• boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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    18 hours ago

    I knew about Kuru but I didn’t know this:

    Usual onset 5 to 50 years after initial exposure

    That makes it even worse. Pretty hard to diagnose wtf is happening if it can take half a century to hit. Imagine you’re just eating some brains as a healthy 15 year old and then boom, kuru 20 years later. You barely got to be an adult and you’re dying because of… Nothing! Nobody knows!