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Kuru: A Journey Back in Time from Papua New Guinea to the Neanderthals’ Extinction

Pawel P. Liberski

Pathogens2013, 2(3), 472-505;https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens2030472

18 July 2013

Kuru, the first human transmissible spongiform encephalopathy was transmitted to chimpanzees by D. Carleton Gajdusek (1923–2008). In this review, I briefly summarize the history of this seminal discovery along its epidemiology, clinical picture, neur...

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Kuru, the First Human Prion Disease

Paweł P. Liberski,
Agata Gajos,
Beata Sikorska and
Shirley Lindenbaum

Viruses2019, 11(3), 232;https://doi.org/10.3390/v11030232

7 March 2019

Kuru, the first human prion disease was transmitted to chimpanzees by D. Carleton Gajdusek (1923–2008). In this review, we summarize the history of this seminal discovery, its anthropological background, epidemiology, clinical picture, neuropat...

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