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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").
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, Fatal familial insomnia, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, kuru, Huntington's disease-like 1, scrapie, variably protease-sensitive prionopathy, chronic wasting disease, Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker syndrome, feline spongiform encephalopathy, transmissible mink encephalopathy, exotic ungulate encephalopathy, camel ...
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Disease Type Treatment stage [clarification needed] CFR Notes Reference(s) Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy: Prion: No treatment and no cure [1]: 100% [2]: Includes Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease and all its variants, fatal insomnia, kuru, Gerstmann–Sträussler–Scheinker syndrome, Variably protease-sensitive prionopathy and others.
systemd, a software suite providing system components for Linux operating systems, implements a blue screen of death similar to that of Microsoft Windows using a systemd unit called systemd-bsod since August 2023, which was fully added on December 6, 2023 starting with version 255 of systemd. [38]
This research contributed substantially to the current understanding of the nature and transmission of kuru. Since this research, Lindenbaum has written several reflections, articles, and books about kuru and the Fore people. [3] Most importantly, her work led to the discovery of prion-communicable diseases, of which kuru was found to be one.
Fatal Error, a 1999 film about a computer virus that evolves into a biological virus; Fatal System Error, a nonfiction account of a cybercrime investigation
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