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Kuru (disease) - Wikipedia Kuru is a rare, incurable, and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea It is a prion disease which leads to tremors and loss of coordination from neurodegeneration
Kuru: What Is It, Causes, Signs and Symptoms, and More | Osmosis Kuru is a rare and fatal infectious disease affecting the nervous system first found among individuals in Papua New Guinea The infection is typically transmitted from person-to-person during ritual cannibalism
Kuru: Causes, Symptoms and Diagnosis - Healthline Kuru is a rare and fatal nervous system disease that occurred mainly during the 1950s and 1960s among the Fore people in the highlands of New Guinea
Kuru: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia Kuru is a very rare disease It is caused by an infectious protein (prion) found in contaminated human brain tissue 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
Kuru - Brain, Spinal Cord, and Nerve Disorders - MSD Manuals Kuru probably started when prion-contaminated tissues from a person with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were eaten Kuru was more common among women and children because they were given the brains, which were more infectious
Kuru | Definition, Symptoms, Facts | Britannica Kuru, infectious fatal degenerative disorder of the central nervous system found primarily among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea The transmission of kuru is attributed to Fore cannibalistic rituals of mourning in which the brain of the dead was eaten, especially by women and children
Kuru | About the Disease | GARD About Kuru Many rare diseases have limited information Currently, GARD aims to provide the following information for this disease:
Kuru - Brain and Life Kuru belongs to a class of infectious diseases called transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also known as prion diseases The hallmark of a TSE disease is misshapen protein molecules that clump together and accumulate in brain tissue