[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.

[Marcella]

“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.”

The group son was with did not eat their own.

“It sounds like your son has had some interesting travels.”

Three months on the ice pack headed to North Pole. Another time on ice pack.
Twice in Siberia.
Kidnapped in Namibia, Africa.
Held captive in Libya, then traveled with Gaddafi around the country.
Peshawar, Pakistan with men who became the Taliban, bin Laden lived in Peshawar during that time.
In Bosnia during that war.
Amazon twice. Waded steam with Piranha to keep camera dry.
Many, many more. I’m glad he is still alive.

[Hot Tabasco]

Once the disease occurs in a group, it would be likely to intensify if it was spread every time someone dies and was eaten.

That's good to know, thanks. I'll keep that in mind the next time I travel to Toledo........