The Fora people even developed a prion that confers resistance to kuru: > researchers [...] discovered a naturally occurring variant of a prion protein in a po

The Fora people even developed a prion that confers resistance to kuru: > researchers [...] discovered a naturally occurring variant of a prion protein in a population from Papua New Guinea that confers strong resistance to kuru > This community [...] has developed their own biologically unique response [...] this genetic evolution has happened in a matter of decades