Science Human form of mad cow disease claims another victim CBC News · Posted: Oct 30, 2000 10:02 AM PST | Last Updated: October 30, 2000 ...

Years of eating human brains protected Papua New Guinea tribe from diseases including dementia, mad cow The practice was outlawed in the 1950s, and the kuru epidemic began to recede.

It is the human variant of mad cow disease, also known as bovine spongiform encephalopathy. They were the first such fatalities since 2005, when a 26-year-old woman died in Madrid.