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Originally Posted by Nowhere Man 1966
Plus the use of humans as food could open up another can of worms, the human equivalent of "Mad Cow Disease" or it is sometimes known as Crutzfield-Jakob's Syndome, IIRC.
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There is no such risk. You are right that a similar disease existed among canibals in Papua New Guinea (it is named "Kuru") but that was never due to eating human flesh. It was the result of populations eating human brains and viscera: warriors eating brains and women eating viscera (actually women developped it more often than men).
From what I know it was studied by an Australian scientist (If the Australians around can give him the proper credit please, I don't recall his name) who actually warned the western world about Creutzfeld-Jacobs long before the disease induce by cow appeared.