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Last living cannibals aid reaserach on neurological disorders
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Jun. 24, 2006

 

People in Papua New Guinea who once feasted on their own relatives succumbed to prion disease as much as half a century later are now helping researchers track down thge neurological disorder they suffered after fifty or sixty years.

 

 


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