What I mean is if you don’t know someone’s medical history in an emergency, would cooking the meat neutralise all the nasties?
What I mean is if you don’t know someone’s medical history in an emergency, would cooking the meat neutralise all the nasties?
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mostly yes
i dont think it could kill prions, but just avoid the brain and you’re good
I’ve never had any problems.
Most of them, but some it won’t.
That’s not so much a case of humans eating humans, but a general problem with eating carnivores: What makes them ill makes most carnivores or omnivores ill, including humans.
There are a few germs which can survive dry surroundings for a prolonged period of time in a spore form which makes them rather invulnerable to heat, too.
That’s why you need to heat canned goods twice during canning or to a temperature significantly above the boiling point of water at atmospheric pressure.
It famously does not. Look up ‘Kuru.’
https://dwr.virginia.gov/wildlife/diseases/cwd/what-are-prions/
>Prions are very hearty proteins. They can be frozen for extended periods of time and still remain infectious. To destroy a prion it must be denatured to the point that it can no longer cause normal proteins to misfold. Sustained heat for several hours at extremely high temperatures (900°F and above) will reliably destroy a prion.
Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual
I’m alerting the authorities