18:09, Fri, Oct 19, 2018 Updated: 18:19, Fri, Oct 19, 2018 Kuru shares a link with the well-known mad cow disease, recently identified at a farm in Aberdeenshire. However, Kuru exists in a much ...

Kuru is a type of prion disease, which includes bovine spongiform encephalopathy—commonly known as mad cow disease—and its variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which sickened humans who consumed ...

IT WAS an exhibition at the Wellcome Medical Museum in London that drew our attention to kuru, a rare disease found only among the people of one tribe in New Guinea. “By a savage irony, one of the ...

In the Fore people of Papua New Guinea, where it was once customary to eat human meat, intractable brain diseases caused by eating human meat have become prevalent and many lives have been lost.

Kuru provides our principal experience of an epidemic human prion disease and primarily affected the Fore linguistic group of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Kuru was transmitted by the ...

A disease linked to cannibalism has given clues about how long mad cow disease (BSE) can lurk in the human body before it develops into vCJD. A University College London team said it could take 50 ...

When the term 'prion' was coined in 1982 by Stanley Prusiner, the enigmas surrounding prion diseases had already captured the interest of scientists, physicians and veterinarians for more than a ...