[Marcella]

“resulting the transmission of the disease”

Up thread I said the person one eats needs to not be sick. Remember in the black death across Europe, the bodies were burned because the bacteria was still in those bodies. I'd say, if at all possible, check the health records of a person before you eat him/her. The cannibals my son filmed have been eating their enemies for many years and I would expect they wouldn't continue that if it killed them. He has made numerous films of various tribes and I think the cannibal one is also the one who wear penis gourds. One would think that would hinder their movements but it doesn't.

[Dan Cooper]

Ritualistically eating your fallen enemies probably wouldn't happen very often (unless you were especially war-like, not the impression I get from Papua New Guinea), but eating the dead from your own group would probably be a more frequent occurrence. Once the disease occurs in a group, it would be likely to intensify if it was spread every time someone dies and was eaten. If a group primarily subsists on human flesh, there would be a high likelihood of disease since their food carries pathogens that are exactly suited to infect humans.

It sounds like your son has had some interesting travels.

[boatbums]

I not talking so much of tribes that ceremonially eat their enemies’ heart or whatnot, but more those people who would eat human flesh as their regular, MAIN protein source - like the Terminus group as we are led to think on the show.