Kuru/Mad Cow

Kuru, Mad Cow, Zombie brains; call it what you will, it is an incurable disease. One obtains this disease by cannibalizing somebody else's brain. This disease was rampant for awhile among the Fore tribe in New Guinea, where ritual cannibalism of the dead was practiced. Women and children were especially affected as the men got the choice cuts, and they were left with the brain. What happens is that something called a prion (a radical protein cell) causes the brain nerves to clump together creating quite literally holes, this can result in a shambling gate and dementia. Yes this is pretty much what Mad Cow is, from what I understand the Brits were feeding them some rather interesting things. As my uncle David will attest (insert plug for uncle David's business http://www.walks.com/ ,I think it's uncle David's business.)

Incidently this one made it into the Alexandrina Mini Print Biannual in Cairo.