Brain-eating tribe evolved resistance to fatal diseases, like mad cow

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The practice of cannibalism in one Papua New Guinea tribe led to the spread of a fatal brain disease called kuru that caused a devastating epidemic in the group. But now, some members of the tribe carry a gene that appears to protect...

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