Kuru   (translated from German)
Kuru Kuru it concerns one Prionenkrankheit , in 20. Century epidemic-like with the trunk that Fore in ... recognized, examined one the transferability of the Kuru on apes under long observation time and ... many decades the hypothesis was established that Kuru became to transfer with the Fore ...
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Kuru (disease)
Kuru (disease) Kuru [[Image:{{{Image}}}|190px|center|]] {{{Caption}}} ICD-10 ... MedlinePlus {{{MedlinePlus}}} eMedicine {{{eMedicineSubj}}}/{{{eMedicineTopic}}} DiseasesDB {{{DiseasesDB}}} Kuru (also known as laughing sickness due to ... anthropologists and Australian government officials reported that kuru ("trembling" in the language of the Fore ... later determined to be responsible for the epidemic transmission of the disease. Kuru is ...
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Encefalopatia Bovine Espongiforme   (translated from Portuguese)
... for month. In the height of the epidemic, 92 December of and January of 93 ... no treatment. In the beginning of the epidemic the illness happened only on adult animals ... scrapie, of TME, of cjd and of kuru, TSE already known well. The researchers had ... the cause-effect chain that produced the epidemic of kuru between natives of Papua-Nova Guiné ( ...
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Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy
... Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome, fatal insomnia and kuru. These conditions form a spectrum of diseases ... encephalopathy (BSE) spread in cattle in an epidemic fashion. This occurred because cattle were fed ... cattle (now banned in many countries). The epidemic could have begun with just one cow ... Sträussler Scheinker syndrome FFI Fatal familial insomnia Kuru Alpers syndrome (hypothesized) In other vertebrate animals ... by human prion diseases (CJD, GSS, and kuru) is characterised by four features: spongiform ...
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Fore
... In the early 1900s the prion disease Kuru (also known as laughing sickness due to ... resulted in the spread of the disease Kuru is well documented and not seriously questioned by modern anthropologists. Kuru among the South Fore Upon the death ... organs. Shirley Lindenbaum , one of the early kuru researchers, states that kuru victims were highly regarded as sources ...
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Talk:Big Spring, Texas
... need lie about it or become defensive. Kuru talk 03:06, 17 February 2006 (UTC ... read this, so disregard that edit summary. Kuru, you make a good point in that ... POV edits) 13:17, January 28, 2006 Kuru (revert: NPOV) 14:55, January 28, 2006 ... Connolley (Having blocked 65., rv back to Kuru/consensus version) 00:28, January 31, 2006 ... using popups) 22:33, February 15, 2006 Kuru (revert: vandalism) 22:38, February 15, ...
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Prion   (translated from German)
... into the body (z.B. with BSE, Kuru) or it results from the spontaneous Umfaltung ... the brain by recovering. Another example is Kuru, thereby the brain of the deceased and ... had been described for the first time Kuru, in the 60's the similarity of these diseases was determined and transferred Kuru likewise experimentally to apes. Although there were ... in numerous experiments. 1986 began the BSE epidemic disease in Great Britain, 1996 the ...
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Talk:Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
... transmission smacks of other prion diseases, particularly kuru in humans, occurring in the Fore tribe ... US-biased; the 1999/2000? European BSE epidemic should be mentioned. -- till we *) 15:45 ... and In Britain there should be an epidemic of vCJD from consumption of BSE beef ... cases of a communicable prion disease. Scrapie, Kuru and BSE and transmissible mink encephalopathy have ... the claim that there "should be an epidemic of vCJD by now," the number ...
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Boviene spongiforme encephalopathy   (translated from Dutch)
... The result was a rapidly acting rural epidemic of BSE which of thousands of animals ... slaughtered before them symptoms could develop. The epidemic has been meanwhile controlled by systematic slaughters ... was initially beducht for a in keeping epidemic under people as under cattlecattle cattle; the ... the Netherlands) so that a really large epidemic becomes always more improbable. Other at Experimentally ... Creutzfeldt-Jakob , Nieuw-Guinea a related disorder, kuru , that kannibalisme were transmitted. American squirrels ...
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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
... syndrome (GSS), fatal familial insomnia (FFI) and kuru in humans, as well as BSE and ... Britain, which suffered a mad cow disease epidemic in the mid-80s. Treatment As of ... abnormal prions, causing the disease known as Kuru, found primarily among women and children of ... finding alarmed healthcare officials because a large epidemic of the disease might arise in the ...
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