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Originally Posted by Mohoender
You are right about that one but you don't get it by eating human flesh. You get it if you eat viscera (Intestin, heart, brain...). Therefore, you take a risk only if you plan to make haggis from human livestocks  .
From what I remebered it was studied by an Australian scientist but I don't recall hiss name. Help wanted from the Aussies please. 
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/kuru/kuru.htm |
..and people say I'm weird with the cockroach-idea....