a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned
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kuru::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | nervous disorder, neurological disease, neurological disorder |
Examples of kuru
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They have the potential to carry KJD, a prion disease similar to mad cow or kuru.
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Men did not participate in this, and were largely spared from development of kuru.
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Rubbing the skin was not sufficient, according to him, for a transmission of kuru.
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The kuru cases they found during this period were unique for several reasons.
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Kuru once wiped out entire generations of women in remote Papuan villages.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Kuru is a similar prion-borne degenerative brain disease affecting humans.
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The practice has been linked to the spread of a prion disease called kuru.
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Most researchers thought kuru was either hereditary or the result of a dietary deficiency.
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Gajdusek eventually won a Nobel Prize for his work on kuru in New Guinea.
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- A progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually ...
- Kuru is an incurable degenerative neurological disorder (brain disease) that is a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy found in humans. It is caused by a misfolded protein called a prion. Kuru was probably transmitted among members of the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea via cannibalism.
- Kuru is a village in Iisaku Parish, Ida-Viru County in northeastern Estonia.
- Kuru (Sanskrit: u0915u0941u0930u0941) was the name of a Vedic Aryan tribal union in northern Iron Age India, encompassing the modern-day states of Delhi, Haryana, Uttarakhand and western part of Uttar Pradesh, which appeared in the Middle Vedic period (c. 1200 u2013 c...
- Kuru is a traditional Bhutanese sport. It involves throwing darts outdoors with a target approximately 20 metres (65 feet).
- A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism
- A slow-virus disease rarely seen today due to the discontinuance of cannibalism and ritualistic butchering; caused neurodegenerative changes; symptoms included gait disturbance, incoordination, and swallowing difficulty.
- A TSE found only in the Fore tribe in New Guinea most likely related to ritualistic cannabalism carried out amoung members of the tribe. Transmissibility of the disease has been established through the work of Gadjusek.
- Fatal prion disease restricted to the Fore tribe in the highlands of New Guinea as a result of cannibalistic funeral practices; form of spongiform encephalopathy
