Kuru

Definition

Kuru was an endemic prion disease characterized clinically by ataxia and neuropathologically by kuru plaques in the cerebellum. Kuru was transmitted by cannibalism found in the Fore tribe in Papua New Guinea, and has almost disappeared.

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Nearby in Acquired prion disease

• 8E01.0Iatrogenically acquired Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
• 8E01.2Variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
• 8E01.3Other acquired Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
• 4B4ZDiseases of the immune system, unspecified