Kuru or laughing sickness - a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy which was transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via cannibalism

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Prions are damn scary. Not even technically “alive” but will kill you dead.
- Prevention: Avoiding practices of cannibalism
  
  Or just buy your dinner's genetic history on the dark web from the 23andme hack, and make sure they don't have a history of encephalopathy. Modern problems require modern solutions.