| Property | Value |
|---|
| rdfs:label | |
| rdfs:comment | - The disease was first observed in Western medicine in the 1950s, where people suffering from it exhibited general weakness that eventually progressed to inability to walk or take in nourishment, leading to death. The disease was widespread among the Fore. In the 1960s, American researchers managed to give chimpanzees the disease by injecting them with biological samples taken from the disease's victims.
|
| owl:sameAs | |
| dcterms:subject | |
| mortalityrate | |
| symptom | - Unsteady gait, loss of muscle control, leading to loss of ability to walk, loss of emotional control, ulcerations and incontinence
|
| dbkwik:house/property/wikiPageUsesTemplate | |
| Name | |
| Type | |
| treatment | |
| Cause | - Eating brain tissue of an infected person
|
| abstract | - The disease was first observed in Western medicine in the 1950s, where people suffering from it exhibited general weakness that eventually progressed to inability to walk or take in nourishment, leading to death. The disease was widespread among the Fore. In the 1960s, American researchers managed to give chimpanzees the disease by injecting them with biological samples taken from the disease's victims. Kuru was the first known of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies and allowed for other breakthroughs that traced similar diseases in the west to the eating of meat tainted with the tranmissible element.
|
