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Kuru

Kuru is an extremely rare disease. It is caused by an infectious protein(prion) found in contaminated human brain tissue.Kuru is found almost exclusively among people from New Guinea, who practiced a form of cannibalism in which the brains of dead...

Source:ADAM

Date:December 3, 2008

Kuru

Kuru is the name of a progressively disabling and ultimately fatal brain infection caused by a unique protein particle called a prion.Kuru was first described in a specific tribal group in Papua, New Guinea. The word"kuru" means"to shake or trembl...

Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders

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