It's thought yes: Continuing my explanation from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27094602 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27094602 "A 'prion' is a m

It's thought yes: Continuing my explanation from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27094602 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27094602 "A 'prion' is a misfolding protein that encourages other proteins of the same type to misfold in the same way - maybe by acting as an incorrect template for folding." So, if you introduce a human prion - here by eating a human and perhaps brain in particular - it will potentially start this process by acting as a first template. (Other animal prions are typically less likely to start this process, since animal proteins will likely be too different)