What is Kuru?
Kuru is a very rare neurological disease that was documented in New Guinea during the sixties. It is part of a group of conditions called portable spongiform encephalopathies (TSE), which are characterized by brain damage that occurs very slowly over time. When someone eventually dies from TSE, it was found that the brain was filled with proteins and holes that both would worsen the function of the brain during life. Some believe that Kuru in New Guinea was the result of traditional funeral practices in which people consumed the dead as part of the ritual that was to maintain the strength and spirit of the deceased in the tribe. Women and children were commonly offered brain tissue and experienced a much higher degree of currency than men. It is also believed that people could be exposed to prions through open cuts and ulcers on their hands, which could come into contact with protein when handling brain matter. A rapid decrease in the Kuru Mate after the government has begun to recommend alternative funeral practices, suggests that the theoryE that this progressive neurological disease was caused by cannibalism is correct, although some scientists continue to question this theory.
As soon as the prion enters the body, it may take years for the symptoms of the Kur. In people with this particular TSE there are experienced trembling and trembling; "Kur" actually means "a trembling disease". The patient also experiences laughter explosions, explains the alternative name "laughter in illness" before immersing in Catatonia and does not respond. Most patients die of pneumonia or bed ulcers, which is the result of prolonged bed periods. Unlike other TSE patients, Kuru patients usually do not develop dementia.
Scientists are interested in Kuru and other TSES because they provide information about prions and are transmitted about them. The Creutzfeld-Job's disease variant, another form seen in humans, regularly attracted media attention in various regions of the world. This form seemsTSE is infected by exposing brain tissue from animals such as squirrels and cattle, and it can also be a genetic origin.
The probability of closing a curly is extremely low because it requires intimate exposure to human brain tissue from someone who has an active infection. Other TSE is also relatively rare among the human population.