kuru

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When kuru, scrapie, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease were first noted it was assumed, wrongly, that all infectious agents were living things.

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  1. noun A fatal progressive, degenerative neurological disease caused by a slow-acting virus, found in certain peoples of New Guinea and transmitted by cannibalism.

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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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  1. Fore (language of eastern Papua New Guinea).
 

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