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Kuru is an extremely rare illness caused by a contagious protein (prion) found in the brain tissue of people with the disease. The only way to acquire kuru is to ingest this tissue or have the ...

The Fore people are the only population who have experienced a documented epidemic of kuru. At its peak in the 1950s, it was the leading cause of death in females among the Fore and their nearest ...

First discovered among the Fore people of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, kuru (“shaking death”) was contracted when people (mostly women) consumed their dead as part of a funereal ...

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Mutation Discovered in Cannibal Tribe Might Stop Deadly Brain Disease A tribe in Papa New Guinea had protections from degenerative brain disease.

"I think it was about 8 months ago, she died of kuru," Cirsten Weldon said of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

For decades, a rare disease crawled across Papua New Guinea. When scientists realized what was behind kuru, it caught everyone by surprise. But similar diseases can still be transmitted through food.

What baffled researchers, according to NPR, was that kuru wasn't a virus or a living bacteria. Instead, it was a strange process that researchers compared to Dr. Jekyll's transformation into Mr ...

Laughing in the face of death is not to be confused with the Laughing Death (Kuru) that is an incurable degenerative disorder in which people literally laughs themselves to death.