• Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      CJD can just… Randomly occur in people. It’s literally bad luck if a protein misfolds and then you suffer and die.

      Kuru is like that.

      • Gal@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        It was a prion disease that was only contracted in the Fore people. The only way to get it was to be born with it or eat someone with the disease. So once people there stopped cannibalism, the disease began to disappear.