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بیماری کورو

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Also known as kuru encephalopathy

اختلال عصبی بسیار نادر، غیرقابل درمان و کشنده‌ای که قبلاً در بین افراد مقیم پاپوآ گینه نو دیده شده است. نوعی انسفالوپاتی اسفنجی شکل (TSE).

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Key facts

Pronunciation
/ˈkʊ.ɹuː/
Specialty
Neuropathology , infectious disease
Symptoms
Body tremors, random outbursts of laughter, emotional degradation, gradual loss of coordination
Complications
Infection and pneumonia during the terminal stage.
Usual onset
5 to 50 years after initial exposure
Duration
11 to 14 months life expectancy after onset of symptoms
Causes
Transmission of infectious prion proteins
Risk factors
Cannibalism , especially consumption of human brains
Diagnostic method
Autopsy
Differential diagnosis
Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
Prevention
Not eating infected humans
Treatment
Supportive care
Prognosis
Always fatal
Frequency
Extinct (last case in 2009)
Deaths
Approximately 2,700

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Research

2,047 papers

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of
disease
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Fore child in advanced kuru stage.png
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different from
Kuru Kingdom
Commons category
Kuru (disease)
health specialty
neurology
ICD-9-CM
046.0
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WikiProject Medicine
has cause
prion
medical examination
histopathology
symptoms and signs
dementia
possible treatment
symptomatic treatment
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