Does Cannibalism Have Implications On Health?

Women And Kids

During the most extreme times, 2% of deaths in the Fore villages were because of kuru. The disease mostly affected women and kids where some villages have lost almost all of their women. Fore men had been taught that eating the deceased during wars and conflicts made them weak, so mostly children and women are the dead. Even further, kids and women took care of the dead bodies so the chance of infections was higher.