In 2005, I took an ethnography class at my university. There were about 10 students (it was an advanced course - Rhetoric and an introductory Anthropology course were pre-requisites). I didn't travel abroad (although some did), and did a book report on Dr. Robert Klitzman: Wrote The Trembling Mountain: A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals, and Mad Cow Disease (1998). At the time, I was majoring in microbiology- studying bacteria, although my coursework covered the basics of prions, which were a relatively new type of virus- a protein one. I was quite disgusted by the whole thing, but I researched it anyways out of a morbid curiousity.

https://www.amazon.ca/Trembling-Mountain-Personal-Account-Ca...

I suppose it's good that some Papua New Guineans evolved immunity to it- I had not heard of such immunity at the time, or at least it wasn't prevalent enough that it was confirmed, but it still of course is an "unspeakable" practice..

I hope I don't get it. https://youtu.be/gQDqRlMeJ4U?t=197

Maybe other places in the world, such as the river burials in India may develop immunity.