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Prion diseases can be transmitted through cannibalism. See Kuru for example.
Some basic medical knowledge is all that's necessary.
It's the same knowledge you apply to animals. If you cut open a rabbit and it has spots on its liver, you do not consume.
You just need to look at the brain, liver and a few other organs to know if it's healthy or not.
The issue with cannibalism is not eating people, it's killing people to eat them. That's where you draw the line. There's no problem eating the recently departed, so long as you didn't have a hand in their departure, unless you're in survival combat.
During 1979 through 2006, an estimated 6,917 deaths with CJD as a cause of death were reported in the United States,...
Exaggerate much?
Gee, 6,917 deaths out of a population of 317 Million. That's a whopping 0.0022% of the population.
The annual rate is 0.000008%.
Your chance of being struck by lightning is 0.00014%.
You have a 10x greater chance of being struck by lighting than getting Prion disease.
But, please, do continue fantasizing.
Humans are just another animal, so your hypocrisy is noted, unless you abstain from eating any animals of any kind.
The only difference between you and a rat or a horse is a better brain.
I do not have a PHD. But, from what I understand, prion disease presents us with three major problems. It has a very long incubation time; it can be over 50 years. It is hard to destroy and soil samples still contain contaminated prions years after the animals die off. In a post cataclysmic world, where humans eat humans, all survivors could be exposed like the Kuru disease in Papua New Guinea.
Right now, in my PA, they are finding deer wasting disease; also caused by prions: https://triblive.com/local/westmorel...ead-to-humans/. They suspect that it could be transmitted to humans and are in the process of preparing a plan of action for affected counties.
In a post cataclysmic world, where humans eat humans, all survivors could be exposed like the Kuru disease in Papua New Guinea.
Which part of this...
Gee, 6,917 deaths out of a population of 317 Million. That's a whopping 0.0022% of the population.
The annual rate is 0.000008%.
Your chance of being struck by lightning is 0.00014%. You have a 10x greater chance of being struck by lighting than getting Prion disease.
...did you not understand?
Here...I'll put it in a way that everybody can easily understand: You'd have to eat 1 Million humans to have an 8% chance of getting the disease.
Is that likely? Is it even possible for you or anyone else to eat 1 Million humans in your life-time?
If you had 25 years and lived to age 75 and you ate one human each day, that's only 18,250 humans.
A Nuclear EMP Event would take place in October/November.
Why? Because all the crops have been harvested, so there's nothing in the fields, and then you have the double deadly onslaught of Winter and the Battles For Things with other groups wanting what you got.
You have to live at least 6 months until March when you can plant, assuming you have seed and planting implements and you have a sufficient security force to protect people while they're clearing fields and planting so they don't get killed by marauders.
Then you have to wait four to five months to harvest your crop and hope it's enough to feed everyone (and you're going to need a 1.5 acres per person per year on a diet of 950 to 1350 calories per day).
If you have to eat half a dozen people during that time to survive, you are not going to get Prion Disease.
Gee, 6,917 deaths out of a population of 317 Million. That's a whopping 0.0022% of the population.
The annual rate is 0.000008%.
Your chance of being struck by lightning is 0.00014%.
You have a 10x greater chance of being struck by lighting than getting Prion disease.
But, please, do continue fantasizing.
I challenge you to climb to the top of a mountain in a thunderstorm and expose yourself to the elements. After all, your chances of being struck are only 0.00014%.
Oh, you don't want to do that?
Well then let's assume you live off people for a few decades, consuming 1,000 brains. Now comes the spring banquet and the kids decide it's time to consume dear old Dad. Will you admit that their chance of acquiring Prion disease by eating you is slightly higher than 0.000008%?
In fact, assuming the odds of gaining Prion disease by eating a human brain actually is 0.000008, your actual odds of not having Prion disease after 1,000 brains is:
1 - (1 - 0.000008)^1000 = 0.8%
Somewhat higher. At 10,000 brains it becomes:
1 - (1 - 0.000008)^10000 = 7.7%
Hmm, almost a significant risk.
The numbers here are completely arbitrary, of course, but they show the trend; cannibal groups have a higher risk of Prion disease just from their dietary behavior.
Last edited by rjshae; 06-17-2019 at 03:02 PM..
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