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Looks good (Picture: Giphy)Eating the brains of dead relatives could help build immunity to dementia. That’s how people in Papua New Guinea’s Fore tribe have managed to stave off the disease, scientists have discovered.
Fore tribespeople have proven to have developed strong resistance over time to kuru prion disease, an unusual yet deadly strain of dementia, according to the findings published in Nature by a team of British and Papua New Guinean scientists.
This communal vaccine has evolved through a traditional Fore ritual of eating the brain of deceased relatives at funerals.
Kuru, a disease likened to BSE in cattle, peaked in the 1950’s after claiming up to 2% of the Fore population a year.
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Fore members that survived were found to have the ‘prion resistance’ gene, which inhibits proteins from mutating and forming brain-damaging polymers.
The gene also immunises against other neurological diseases, such as Parkinson’s.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a more common prion-based disorder scientists believe these findings could help open the door to possible breakthroughs in tackling dementia.
The discovery is also thought to give scientists an insight into the molecular causes and possible treatments of other prion-based diseases.
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Fore tribespeople have proven to have developed strong resistance over time to kuru prion disease, an unusual yet deadly strain of dementia, according to the findings published in Nature by a team of British and Papua New Guinean scientists.
This communal vaccine has evolved through a traditional Fore ritual of eating the brain of deceased relatives at funerals.
Kuru, a disease likened to BSE in cattle, peaked in the 1950’s after claiming up to 2% of the Fore population a year.
MORE: Cannibal decorator rips out man’s heart and eats it after kicking victim between legs
MORE: ‘Cannibal mother tries to eat her newborn baby after giving birth’
Fore members that survived were found to have the ‘prion resistance’ gene, which inhibits proteins from mutating and forming brain-damaging polymers.
The gene also immunises against other neurological diseases, such as Parkinson’s.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) is a more common prion-based disorder scientists believe these findings could help open the door to possible breakthroughs in tackling dementia.
The discovery is also thought to give scientists an insight into the molecular causes and possible treatments of other prion-based diseases.
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