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Kuru is a rare, incurable, and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. Kuru is a form of prion disease which leads to tremors and loss of coordination from neurodegeneration. The term kúru means “trembling” and comes from the Fore word kuria or guria ("to shake").
Vincent Zigas (1920–1983) [1] was a medical officer of the Kainantu Sub-District [2] in Papua New Guinea during the 1950s and was one of the first Western medical officials to note the uniqueness of kuru and begin to investigate it. He is listed in many early academic writings about kuru. Little is known his life and work.
The Tanganyika laughter epidemic of 1962 was an outbreak of mass hysteria—or mass psychogenic illness (MPI)—rumored to have occurred in or near the village of Kashasha on the western coast of Lake Victoria in Tanganyika (which, once united with Zanzibar, became the modern nation of Tanzania) near the border with Uganda.
Paradoxical laughter is an exaggerated expression of humour which is unwarranted by external events. It may be uncontrollable laughter which may be recognised as inappropriate by the person involved. It is associated with mental illness, such as mania, hypomania or schizophrenia, schizotypal personality disorder and can have other causes.
The case centered around the moment a man charged into an animation studio in the city of Kyoto, setting it on fire with about 70 people inside.
Zeuxis, a 5th-century BC Greek painter, is said to have died laughing at the humorous way in which he painted an old woman. [9]Chrysippus, also known as "the man who died from laughing at his joke", an influential 3rd-century BC Greek Stoic philosopher, reportedly died of laughter after he saw a donkey eating his fermented figs; he told a slave to give the donkey undiluted wine to wash them ...
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Seryu later fights Mine and Sheele using her Teigu, a creature named Koro. When Sheele dies in combat, An injured Mine to forced to escape when a dying Sheele uses her Teigu's Trump card, with Seryu laughing manically over Sheele's death: 3: May 21, 2011 [14] 978-4-7575-3238-0: July 21, 2015 [15] 978-0-316-34004-5