Guinea. Kuru is a form of prion disease which leads to tremors and loss of coordination from neurodegeneration. The term kúru means “trembling” and comes...

Look up kuru in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Kuru may refer to: Kuru (disease), a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy associated with...

other food. Kuru is a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) caused by prions that are found in humans. Human prion diseases come in sporadic...

Trans–New Guinea phylum of Papuan languages. In the 1950s the neurological disease kuru was discovered in the South Fore. The local tradition of ritual cannibalism...

Diseases: From Kuru to Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease". Protein Aggregation and Fibrillogenesis in Cerebral and Systemic Amyloid Disease. Subcellular...

on the disease. A person may carry a disease, such as Streptococcus in the throat, without exhibiting any symptoms. Depending on the disease, the person...

humans include Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome, fatal familial insomnia, and kuru, as well as the recently discovered...

implicated as a transmission mechanism for abnormal prions, causing the disease known as kuru, once found primarily among women and children of the Fore people...

familial, and variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. Gajdusek recognized that diseases like Kuru and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease were caused by a new infectious agent...

Gajos, Agata; Sikorska, Beata; Lindenbaum, Shirley (2019). "Kuru, the First Human Prion Disease †". Viruses. 11 (3): 232. doi:10.3390/v11030232. PMC 6466359...

the kuru disease which is only known to spread through cannibalism, researchers concluded that the 127V gene, which is known for resisting kuru-like...

(GSS), kuru, and variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD). Similarities exist between kuru, thought to be due to human ingestion of diseased individuals...

syndrome Kuru Kuskokwim disease Kuster–Majewski–Hammerstein syndrome Kuster syndrome Kuzniecky syndrome Kwashiorkor Kyasanur forest disease Kyphosis Kyphosis...

with lytico-bodig.[citation needed] β-Methylamino-L-alanine (BMAA) Kuru (disease) Golbe LI (September 2000). "Progressive supranuclear palsy in the molecular...

encephalopathy, like Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and kuru in humans, scrapie in sheep, and chronic wasting disease in deer. A ban on feeding meat and bone meal...

2001). "Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome,fatal familial insomnia, and kuru: a review of these less common human transmissible spongiform encephalopathies"...

an Australian anthropologist notable for her medical anthropology work on kuru in Papua New Guinea, HIV/AIDS in the United States of America, and cholera...

cannibalism among the Fore people, the last known victims of kuru died in 2005 or 2009, but the disease has a very long incubation period. In 2007, the WHO launched...

Kuru (/ˈkuruˈkʊlə/, after Kurukullā, a Tibetan Buddhist deity) is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod from the Late Cretaceous Barun Goyot Formation of Mongolia...

for prion diseases, known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSEs), which are fatal and transmissible neurodegenerative diseases affecting both...

spongiform encephalopathy (CSE), commonly known as mad camel disease, is similar to mad cow disease. It was discovered by the Algerian veterinarian Baaissa...

Diseases, disorders, infections, and pathogens have appeared in fiction as part of a major plot or thematic importance. They may be fictional psychological...

Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf...

Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome (GSS), fatal familial insomnia (FFI), and kuru in humans. While prions are typically viewed as pathogens that cause protein...

him to seek out the Fore and he began to look into this disease, known by the locals as kuru which meant "to shiver." While certain accounts say that...

vaccine-preventable diseases. Infections associated with diseases List of oncogenic bacteria List of causes of death by rate − including specific infectious diseases and...

sold for human consumption in numerous countries. Another prion disease called kuru has been traced to a funerary ritual among the Fore people of Papua...

cattle Chronic wasting disease in deer Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and its variant Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome Kuru Scrapie in sheep and goat...

encephalopathies Prion Disease (Kuru, CJD, GSS, BSE) Alzheimer's disease Sickle cell anemia Parkinson's disease Huntington's disease Gibbs, Clarence J.;...

diagnosis. Other diseases involving the mammalian prion protein are known. Some are transmissible (TSEs, including FFI) such as kuru, bovine spongiform...