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Abstract. When the Black Death struck Western Europe in late 1347, city dwellers across the region were already practising public health, in part by building, m

In 1846, The Donner Party, pioneers from Illinois in search of homestead in California, resorted to cannibalism as a means of survival. Decades later, “Bones and All,” an internationally acclaimed Southern gothic film, depicts a romance between two cannibals on the outskirts of impoverished, rural America—in other words, Timothee Chalamet makes cannibalism sexy. “Bones and...

The Fore people of Papua New Guinea used to practice a funeral ritual that involved the consumption of the brains of their recently departed loved ones. Even though this long-standing tradition was considered an expression of respect for their dead, it led to an epidemic of a brain disease named "kuru" that decimated 2% of the population each year.

How a strange illness connected to consuming human flesh led to two Nobel Prizes.

The kuru epidemic almost wiped out the Indigenous Fore people of Papua New Guinea in the 1950s and 1960s. There were two-percent deaths every year in the 1950s because of kuru. Ritual cannibalism was responsible for the disease, which spread widely.