Why haven’t prions caused an epidemic in humans yet?

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I’ve read of accounts of “Kuru” and from what I’ve read the diseases caused by prions generally have a long incubation period, and that it can take a very singular prion to cascade into a complete disease.

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You *generally* don’t consume the nerve tissues of other humans. This does put a bit of a barrier into the usual way one can catch a case of neurodegenerative prions.

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