Kuru, nicknamed "laughing disease" or "laughing death", was much more common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea back in the 1950s and 1960s than it is now - in fact, it is considered to ...

Today is Rare Disease Day, and to mark it, we're taking a look at one condition that killed all those who contracted it in a rather disturbing way.

A file was completed and sent to the DPP in February with recommendation for charges for causing death by dangerous driving ... driven by 21-year-old Lim of Kuru Kururu.