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  2. Kuru (disease) - Wikipedia

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    Women and children usually consumed the brain, the organ in which infectious prions were most concentrated, thus allowing for transmission of kuru. The disease was therefore more prevalent among women and children. The epidemic likely started when a villager developed sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and died. When villagers ate the brain ...

  3. Naegleriasis - Wikipedia

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    Naegleria fowleri is also known as the "brain-eating amoeba". The term has also been applied to Balamuthia mandrillaris, causing some confusion between the two; Balamuthia mandrillaris is unrelated to Naegleria fowleri, and causes a different disease called granulomatous amoebic encephalitis.

  4. Naegleria fowleri - Wikipedia

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    Naegleria fowleri, also known as the brain-eating amoeba, is a species of the genus Naegleria. It belongs to the phylum Percolozoa and is classified as an amoeboflagellate excavate , [ 1 ] an organism capable of behaving as both an amoeba and a flagellate .

  5. Map shows where brain-eating amoebas are infecting people in ...

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    Brain-eating amoebas may be moving north as waters warm Recent data has not shown an increase in case reports over the past few years. In 2019, 2020, and 2021, three cases were reported to the CDC ...

  6. Cysticercosis - Wikipedia

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    [3] [2] A specific form called neurocysticercosis, which affects the brain, can cause neurological symptoms. [2] In developing countries this is one of the most common causes of seizures. [2] Cysticercosis is usually acquired by eating food or drinking water contaminated by tapeworms' eggs from human feces. [1]

  7. Prion - Wikipedia

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    They are the hypothesized cause of various TSEs, including scrapie in sheep, chronic wasting disease (CWD) in deer, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle (mad cow disease), and Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) in humans. [8] All known prion diseases in mammals affect the structure of the brain or other neural tissues. These diseases ...

  8. 2 die after eating CWD-infected meat: What to know about ...

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    Chronic wasting disease is a progressive, fatal prion disease that affects the brain, spinal cord and many other tissues of farmed and free-ranging deer, elk, and moose.

  9. Cannibalism - Wikipedia

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    Some examples of diseases transmitted by cannibalism in mammals include the human disease Kuru which is a prion disease that degenerates the brain. [4] This disease was prevalent in Papua New Guinea where tribes practiced endocannibalism in cannibalistic funeral rituals and consume the brains infected by these prions. [18]