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a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey
출처: wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
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| kuru |
Kuru (also known as laughing sickness due to the outbursts of laughter that mark its second phase) was first noted in New Guinea in the early 1900s. By the 1950s, anthropologists and Australian government officials reported that kuru ("trembling" in the language of the Fore) was rampant among the South Fore, a single census division of approximately 8,000 individuals within the Okapa subdistrict. ...
출처: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease)
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a slow-virus disease rarely seen today due to the discontinuance of cannibalism and ritualistic butchering; caused neurodegenerative changes; symptoms included gait disturbance, incoordination, and swallowing difficulty.
출처: www.amnh.org/exhibitions/epidemic/glossary.html
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a variant of Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease which spread epidemically in the first half of the twentieth century under the Fore (natives of Papua New Guinea), probably due to cannibalistic rites
출처: www.schuett-abraham.de/glossar-en.htm
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| kuru |
A disease found in the Fore tribe in New Guinea, and due to the eating of human infected tissue by members of a tribe. In general the women ate brain tissue rather than the men and so it was the women and children that died relatively rapidly of the disease.
출처: bse.airtime.co.uk/defb.htm
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