Kuru | Debunking A Rare Prion Disease

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  • Опубликовано: 25 дек 2024

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  • @bulbasaurousrex6009
    @bulbasaurousrex6009 Год назад +64

    1:27 , the reason for such an odd spread is because the body was eaten by mostly women and children. The Fore Tribe believe that humans had 5 souls- one of them being a “kweala”. This soul was thought to be dangerous and could only find peace in a womb. Hence, the women would cook the body and eat it all whilst the men rarely participated. They also gave parts of the brain to children or family to pass on traits or skills. It’s a really interesting culture

    • @Abu_Brandino
      @Abu_Brandino Год назад +10

      Tell us again how interesting it is when you’re the one being skinned alive

    • @Loki-innovator
      @Loki-innovator Год назад +1

      ​@@Abu_Brandinobro they are eating the dead ones only

    • @claykennedy6790
      @claykennedy6790 Год назад

      @@Abu_Brandino These tribes practiced funerary cannibalism. By the time you were eaten you were already dead.

    • @insertfunnyname9763
      @insertfunnyname9763 11 месяцев назад +15

      ​@@Abu_Brandino What? The tribe would eat people who had died, they wouldn't skin them alive??? Where did you get that from?

    • @L_videogame
      @L_videogame 10 месяцев назад +12

      @@Abu_Brandino being interesting doesn’t need to make something morally good.
      They aren’t condoning cannibalism, Relax.

  • @panagiotisgoulas8539
    @panagiotisgoulas8539 Год назад +46

    Wikipedia also states that 'Women and children usually consumed the brain, the organ in which infectious prions were most concentrated, thus allowing for transmission of kuru. The disease was therefore more prevalent among women and children'. That is why the chart is as such.

    • @Mariagracewhoplaysthebass
      @Mariagracewhoplaysthebass 6 месяцев назад +2

      Yes the Fore tribe female members were the looked at as the strongest members thus they were the ones who could eat the flesh of the dead relatives. This was ritual and done because they believed the flesh was one of the 5 forms of the human soul and it wasn't safe to leave it decay. It must be consumed by surviving kin. This also enabled their deceased loved ones' souls to rise up and avenge their death. So it's said that's why it was so disproportionately female who became ill. And as you see in the chart children were the next largest group, both sexes. This is because it was common for moms aunts and sisters would sneak pieces of their relatives to the kids,especially the brain pieces as it was considered a delicacy . And the brain and spine is where the prions are and that's where they catch it. Another form of this disease is mad cow's disease or the human form Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD). Or AKA my worst fear and the worst possible way to die!

  • @rabbittm3755
    @rabbittm3755 2 года назад +141

    I saw a video where a cannibal said not to eat human brains, then i searched why, it said kuru, thank you for explaining

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 2 года назад

      Don't eat any flesh related to the brain and spinal column. Prion diseases (Kuru, vCJD, BSE, etc.) tend to affect the nervous system, and can be spread by ingesting the affected flesh. It requires temperatures of up to 900F to destroy the prion, so cooking the flesh will not destroy the prion. Likewise, common chemical treatments (alcohol, bleach, etc.) don't affect it. Interestingly, scrapie is known to affect sheep, however, humans haven't been known to get a prion disease from eating brain matter of affected sheep, although feeding affected sheep to cows is believed to have led to BSE in the UK.

    • @Johnsonman47373
      @Johnsonman47373 Год назад +10

      You searched it now your on a watchlist

    • @rabbittm3755
      @rabbittm3755 Год назад +9

      @@Johnsonman47373 hopefully

    • @Johnsonman47373
      @Johnsonman47373 Год назад +2

      @@rabbittm3755 fair enough

    • @RaquelSantos-hj1mq
      @RaquelSantos-hj1mq Год назад +1

      Only the brains?

  • @oahuhawaii2141
    @oahuhawaii2141 2 года назад +67

    Fore (the tribe in PNG) is pronounced FOR-ay.
    The title is wrong, no "debunking" was done in this video. Please look up its definition.

    • @thyroidtube3739
      @thyroidtube3739 2 года назад +17

      Was going to write the same thing. This is an explanation, not debunking

    • @memegazer
      @memegazer 4 месяца назад +1

      The title does refute that the cause of death is laughing.
      Though I am not sure how many people believed that laughter is what resulted in death for kuru cases.

  • @TriStarWorkshop
    @TriStarWorkshop Год назад +69

    Nature's way of saying "DO NOT EAT YOUR OWN KIND"

    • @rambopack9140
      @rambopack9140 Год назад +3

      You can get it from eating cow brains too

    • @TangoIndiaMikeJuliet
      @TangoIndiaMikeJuliet Год назад +2

      ​@@rambopack9140 Not just the brains

    • @tobacco3939
      @tobacco3939 Год назад

      ​@@TangoIndiaMikeJulietit's most prevalent in the brain you can eat a non infected person flesh n be fine but the moment you touch the brain it's a death sentence

    • @SCP-173peanut
      @SCP-173peanut Год назад

      ​@@rambopack9140that's Mad cow disease, a prion disease but not the same as kuru and you can get it by just eating infected cow

    • @queenkira1272
      @queenkira1272 11 месяцев назад

      @@rambopack9140 I thought Mad cow and kuru are diffirent disease caused by prions?

  • @bcomplexity8267
    @bcomplexity8267 8 месяцев назад +30

    Debunking is more used for saying that something is fake. This is very real... 'demystify' is definitely a better term. Please use better english for your title

  • @Kookbob
    @Kookbob Год назад +264

    Who else is here due to DayZ?

  • @sugisdoomguy54
    @sugisdoomguy54 Год назад +9

    Dayz is in irl????

  • @thatcommentsectiondoucheba5032
    @thatcommentsectiondoucheba5032 Год назад +6

    I’ve always wondered where it came from, or if people can be infected by eating someone without it

    • @tobacco3939
      @tobacco3939 Год назад

      You can only get infected bye eating sum1 without it if you ate the brain

  • @Zim5.0
    @Zim5.0 4 месяца назад +5

    Consuming dead corpses as a sign of respect? Respect?! It cannot get any more messed up that this!

  • @S4bby743
    @S4bby743 3 часа назад

    McDonald’s and Burger King the real ones laughing.

  • @corticallarvae
    @corticallarvae Год назад +6

    My grandfather got Kuru aka creutzfeld Jacob disease as a pow in New Guinea in ww2 under Japanese occupation it got bad in 87 he almost shot his wig and my aunt after becoming enraged by watching the Iran contra hearing and when he snapped out of a march toward them he utilized the pistol on himself… my aunt kept him alive until the choice was made to pull the plug because his modern equivalent on the Glasgow coma scale was essentially equivocal to the modern concept of a living cadaver… beware the diagnosis of spontaneous CJD because you cannot autoclave a prion and spinal taps carry some small risk… a test before invasive spinal injection would eliminate the risk… the risk is still low but be very curious as to why women have it more frequently in the modern age…this and exposure to paraquat destroyed two generations of my modern family… not ancestors..

    • @margaretwordnerd5210
      @margaretwordnerd5210 9 месяцев назад +1

      My uncle died of Creutzfeld Jacob in 1998. . In a matter of weeks he went from being a remarkably fit and still brilliant retiree with a very active life to not recognizing family, then gone. No clue how he contracted it. He never traveled to anywhere I've heard of Kuru or mad cow disease. Aside from being a nuclear physicist since the Manhattan Project his life involved no uncommon hazards and I can't imagine how splitting atoms would correlate with a prion disease. I sympathize with your family's trauma. What a heartbreaking experience.✌🖖

    • @scirvy
      @scirvy 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@margaretwordnerd5210I’m so sorry for your loss 💔 CJD doesn’t need a cause, usually it doesn’t, sometimes it’s just completely random- could also be due to genetics. 80% of all CJD cases are sporadic

    • @margaretwordnerd5210
      @margaretwordnerd5210 8 месяцев назад +2

      @@scirvy good to know. If I understand rightly, CJD is like being conked by space debris: an extremely unlikely tragedy that could happen to anyone.

  • @Sksk27547
    @Sksk27547 7 месяцев назад +4

    Anyone can get kuru by eating raw cow brain or other raw brain. Its just that easy.

  • @VexingWeeb
    @VexingWeeb Год назад +32

    Why find a cure just don’t eat a homie smh

    • @kiri23234
      @kiri23234 Год назад +13

      Prion deseases can also occure because of genetic defects (If the desease is transmitted by eatin humans, how do you think the first infection happened?) and can be transmitted via animals (like the mad cow desease). The chronic wasting desease of deer (also called zombie deer) is also a prion desease. Prions are very hard to destroy an can stay infectious over a long period of time so they might become a larger threat in the future.

    • @omidee2926
      @omidee2926 Год назад +1

      Vexingweeb, I embarrassed myself by laughing at your comment. 😅

    • @heavenburke
      @heavenburke Год назад +1

      I think it needs a cure this is just upsetting

    • @bunnyonabunwithagunnicepun5689
      @bunnyonabunwithagunnicepun5689 11 дней назад

      4:05 smh

  • @maestro-zq8gu
    @maestro-zq8gu 7 месяцев назад +1

    But how do the prions get from the stomach to the brain? This is the same question I had after Mr. Ballen's video.

  • @Balltikl
    @Balltikl 6 месяцев назад +2

    Came because of Will Wood 💜💜💜

  • @AngelicaRose-jn6xl
    @AngelicaRose-jn6xl 3 месяца назад +1

    Fun fact (I think): I believe it is also related to the Mad Cow Disease.

    • @danielleong1865
      @danielleong1865 2 месяца назад

      Various kinds of prions cause disease. One type causes scrapie in goats, but humans are immune to it. Another type causes bovine spongiform encephalopathy. Humans can get an aggressive form called variant CJD from eating the brain, spinal cord, or nerves of an infected cow. Centuries ago, there were similar cases in humans, and the disease is named CJD, but it takes decades to develop.

  • @saimaleon7115
    @saimaleon7115 6 месяцев назад +1

    Ugh couldn't listen because of the distracting background "music". WHY???

  • @Edible_chalk
    @Edible_chalk Год назад +9

    Will wood fans wya?

    • @prxsm6356
      @prxsm6356 Год назад +4

      I CAUGHT KURU FROM YOUR SISTER

    • @Snow_Sailor
      @Snow_Sailor 7 месяцев назад +1

      AND DIED LAUGHING IN JAIL!

  • @JIMMILLS-vo4dw
    @JIMMILLS-vo4dw Месяц назад +2

    So Kuru exists? So… not debunked?

    • @vixivasmr
      @vixivasmr 8 дней назад

      They never argued whether it exists or not. The debunking is about Kuru being a laughing disease and that the laughter offs you

  • @PRED4T0R85
    @PRED4T0R85 Год назад +11

    dont do the adrenochrome

    • @jennifergreen6109
      @jennifergreen6109 Год назад +4

      Aka "natural flavors"

    • @erenjeager5290
      @erenjeager5290 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@jennifergreen6109what? Where can I learn more about the natural flavors they put in EVERY SINGLE FOOD?

    • @jennifergreen6109
      @jennifergreen6109 9 месяцев назад

      @@erenjeager5290 It's an umbrella term for hundreds, if not thousands, of ingredients. Also, the internet has been mostly scrubbed of this information, but there are HEK293 cells in natural flavors sometimes. Of course many will say that's a conspiracy theory. But even if that's not true, keeping ingredients secret from consumers is a very shady practice. It's refusal to be transparent, which is actually dangerous to people who have allergies. This is pretty much a loophole for lying to people about what they are actually consuming. They are betting most will be too lazy to look into the issue; which I've found to be true. The companies producing these products with "natural flavors" say it's to protect their recipe, but I'm calling bullshit.

  • @LiamFlores-ik2dj
    @LiamFlores-ik2dj Год назад +2

    I thought kuru was a song😂

  • @CrankyLawyer
    @CrankyLawyer 7 месяцев назад +1

    MrBallen's story sent me here

    • @calie6262
      @calie6262 3 месяца назад +1

      Ive recently been watching his stuff im currious if you remember which one that was?

    • @CrankyLawyer
      @CrankyLawyer 3 месяца назад

      @@calie6262 , well just type "MrBallen kuru"and it should be the first result. It says "epic mansplaining" in the thumbnail. I've gotten into him about a year ago. Great backstory with the Navy SEAL service. So many imitators though so I always like and comment to give extra love to the veteran. I also like this other veteran from his studio called Wartime Stories. Great voice and totally different style visually. What's your favorite Ballen story? Don't miss "the most f'ed up interrogation". I'm a defense attorney and that one shocked even me.

    • @calie6262
      @calie6262 2 месяца назад

      @un-Lawyer thanks! Turned out I had that video on my "watch later" list and didn't realize 😅
      I definitely enjoy his stories. I think I found him about a month or 2 ago now, so not too long. I've been going through and watching both new and old alot. Just the way he tells the stories just drags you right into them.
      I'm not sure I can choose a particular favorite alot are really interesting. As for that interrogation I actually had watch the full interrogation on a different channel befor I watch his (may have been ewu) and it just baffles me how the cop couldn't realize something was wrong. Just the visual injuries alone I feel should have been checked on befor interrogating. Everything was wrong about that one.
      I havnt watched any war time on RUclips (if it's on there) but I have it saved to be wat h on Spotify. Another one I like and I actually usually sleep to is the bed time stories. He's voice is just soothing enough to sleep to but the stories are so good to listen to as well. Considering the war times are paranormal and such as well, I'm sure I'm going to enjoy them when I start listening ☺️

  • @tanyapattersonjohn2846
    @tanyapattersonjohn2846 3 месяца назад +1

    I'm here because of Vitals

    • @CaelanQualter
      @CaelanQualter 2 месяца назад

      Same, I didn’t know we had a lot in common

  • @pulverize3
    @pulverize3 Месяц назад

    Its nature's way of dealing with cannibal scum and sometimes there are evil cows.

  • @theodorebear6714
    @theodorebear6714 8 месяцев назад

    Catch it early, and then the goal is to find a way to do a cell therapy that folds the proteins correctly.
    (Treatment target for future therapy for prion diseases in mammals. Including kuru in humans.)
    It's just a problem with how the cell works mechanically with making new proteins - specifically proteins related to neurological function.
    Kuru is very similar to "mad cow disease"
    To prevent -
    Don't eat rotten meat.
    Don't eat brain/neurological matter.
    Eating humans is culturally taboo in most places and usually unethical anyway.
    Get heathy exercise.
    Strech the body for healthy flexibility.
    Eat vegetables, get enough clean water to drink, add salt to some grilled onions or other vegetables & get plenty of sleep, I say. 👍

  • @karynjohnson
    @karynjohnson Год назад +4

    Has anyone noticed the resemblance to The Flare? If you know, you know.

  • @Teefs69
    @Teefs69 Год назад

    Ed Baldwin and crew ate Danny stevens in Mars!

  • @Adrian-fo1wu
    @Adrian-fo1wu 6 месяцев назад

    Who is here cuz of Mr Ballen?

  • @CaelanQualter
    @CaelanQualter 2 месяца назад

    Who came here because of vitals?

  • @douglasalfseike3867
    @douglasalfseike3867 14 дней назад

    Y'all have been Mandela affected! Not effected! Kuru was known well before the 1950's! It was written in early explorers books.

  • @Yallwantclaudette
    @Yallwantclaudette 3 месяца назад

    Who is here bc of emilia barth?

  • @douglasalfseike3867
    @douglasalfseike3867 14 дней назад

    At any rate don't go Dahmer!

  • @JIMMILLS-vo4dw
    @JIMMILLS-vo4dw Месяц назад

    Just watch apocalypto if you’re curious

  • @Prisoner_X
    @Prisoner_X 2 года назад +3

    vaxsymptom

    • @DJDeepFry
      @DJDeepFry Год назад +3

      😂😂😂😅😅

    • @wendyc5370
      @wendyc5370 Год назад +1

      I read somewhere early on in the plandemic there were prions in the waxine. Also the gubment has probably been putting it in our food supply all along. Makes me wonder about diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Look up the old movie "Soylent Green". They always like to tell you what they're up to. Sounds crazy I know.

  • @AlanOloba-gp9iu
    @AlanOloba-gp9iu Год назад +11

    Ah man they patched the unlimited food glitch we can’t have anything good🥲

    • @Vipbossguy
      @Vipbossguy 10 месяцев назад +2

      💀

    • @theodorebear6714
      @theodorebear6714 8 месяцев назад +4

      ...You know you can grow as many potatos and carrots as you want?