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	Kuru: The Dynamics of a Prion Disease
		Kuru is a neurodegenerative disorder that surfaced among the South Fore of New Guinea, and the dynamics of this disease have been explored by various scholars.
		Dysarthria occurred in kuru during the initial stages of the diseases and in CJD more towards the end, and the exact same situation is seen with the condition of urinary incontinence as well.
		Gadjusek DC (1973) Kuru in the New Guinea Highlands.
	www.as.ua.edu /ant/bindon/ant570/Papers/McGrath/McGrath.htm (2908 words)

	Disease Reference - Kuru Epidemic (Laughing Sickness) Information
		Since Kuru had a tendency to occur among family members, the original notion that it was a genetic disorder seems somewhat appropriate.
		Gajdusek studied Kuru, and he found the condition of Kuru victims to be an upsetting sight.
		Gajdusek D.C. Kuru in the New Guinea Highlands.
	www.disease-reference.com /Kuru.htm (1392 words)

	More deaths from mad cow disease predicted
		It reached epidemic proportions in some Papua New Guinea communities who ate their dead relatives as a mark of respect and mourning until the ritual practice was banned in the 1950s.
		In a unique piece of research which continues the meticulous records that have tracked the epidemic of kuru - the "shivering" disease - since 1957, Australian, British and PNG researchers tracked a group of 11 former cannibals dying from the always fatal prion disease between 1996 and 2004.
		Forming the tail-end of the epidemic, they were all born before 1950 and took part in endocannibalism, a ritual in which the whole body of deceased relatives was consumed as a sign of love and respect.
	www.gwinnettdailyonline.com /GDP/archive/articleEEF238D9C90E4B2989F5E473D3145A16.asp (1823 words)

	Kuru Information Page: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
		Kuru is a rare and fatal brain disorder that occurred at epidemic levels during the 1950s-60s among the Fore people in the highlands of New Guinea.
		Brain tissue from individuals with kuru was highly infectious, and the disease was transmitted either through eating or by contact with open sores or wounds.
		Because kuru mainly affected the cerebellum, which is responsible for coordination, the usual first symptoms were an unsteady gait, tremors, and slurred speech.
	www.ninds.nih.gov /disorders/kuru/kuru.htm (518 words)

	Kuru (disease) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By the 1950s, anthropologists and Australian government officials reported that kuru ("shaking death" in the language of the Fore) was rampant among the South Fore, a single census division of approximately 8,000 individuals within the Okapa subdistrict.
		The exact nature of kuru perplexed scholars for decades after the discovery of the ailment, until Stanley B. Prusiner identified and defined prion diseases in 1982 (Prusiner, 1995).
		DC Gajdusek (1973), "Kuru in the New Guinea Highlands".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kuru_epidemic (1413 words)

	kuru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Beginning in the 19th century, this group was partaking in ritual acts of mortuary cannibalism, which was later held to be responsible for the transmission of the fatal kuru epidemic.
		From approximately 1920 through the 1960s and epidemic of the prion disease kuru swept through the Fore, killing more than 200 people a year.
		The study found that 23 out of the 30 women that had participated in the mortuary feast had one normal copy of the prion gene and one with the M129V polymorphism, suggesting that those who survived the kuru epidemic possessed a genetic resistance to the disease.
	plaza.ufl.edu /ash1ey/kuru.html (362 words)

	Prion disease
		Kuru is as old as the collective memories of the oldest Fore villagers, for whom Western dates have little meaning.
		Kuru became known erroneously as "the laughing death", because gales of uncontrollable and inappropriate laughter (or tears) would sometimes seize sufferers.
		In May 1960, the hypothesis from some Adelaide researchers that kuru was entirely a genetic disease led to the bizarre notion, aired in Federal Parliament, of quarantining the 2,300 square kilometres of often impenetrable, jungle-clad mountains and valleys of the kuru area, south-east of Goroka, into "a vast concentration camp".
	www.mad-cow.org /sep99_late_news.html (7553 words)

	Kuru Revisited - Journal Watch Neurology
		New evidence from the waning kuru epidemic suggests that incubation periods for prion diseases are surprisingly long -- and that more surprises are likely.
		Kuru does appear to be gone, but the next twist in the prion
		Kuru in the 21st century — an acquired human prion disease with very long incubation periods.
	neurology.jwatch.org /cgi/content/full/2006/905/1 (425 words)

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