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Thus humans contract kuru when they eat other humans.
It was found that many of them suffered from a disease called "kuru", which they had contracted from eating human tissue.
Even though they cooked the bodies before eating them, they still contracted a mysterious fatal illness called "kuru," akin to mad-cow disease.— Readthehook.com - Current Articles
When kuru, scrapie, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were first noted it was assumed, wrongly, that all infectious agents were living things.— BMJ Latest Articles
Waraiau kodomo-tachi o nagamenagara kimi ga kuru no o zutto matte ita— AnimeBlogger.net Antenna

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