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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
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
2,047 papers- Kuru, the First Human Prion Disease.Viruses · 2019
- Kuru.Contemporary neurology series · 1975
- From Kuru to Alzheimer: A personal outlook.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2021
- Kuru-fifty years later.Neurologia i neurochirurgia polska · 2007
- Kuru: the first prion disease.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2012
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Fore child in advanced kuru stage.png
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- different from
- Kuru Kingdom
- Commons category
- Kuru (disease)
- health specialty
- neurology
- exact match
- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:648
- ICD-9-CM
- 046.0
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
- has cause
- prion
- medical examination
- histopathology
- symptoms and signs
- dementia
- possible treatment
- symptomatic treatment
via Wikidata · CC0
Article · Français
Le kuru est une maladie à prions (comme la maladie de la vache folle), découverte en Nouvelle-Guinée au début du XXe siècle. La maladie du kuru a été décrite chez le peuple des Fore de Nouvelle-Guinée par (en) et D. Carleton Gajdusek (prix Nobel de médecine 1976), ainsi que d'autres chercheurs. Quoique distinct de la maladie de Creutzfeldt-Jakob, le kuru est également une encéphalopathie spongiforme transmissible. Son mode de transmission a pu être relié à un rite funéraire anthropophage. Le mot kuru signifie « trembler de peur », en fore.
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