The example of kuru helped to show how BSE — mad cow disease — spread through the feeding of infected cattle brains to other animals, and how this led to variant Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease (vCJD). (newscientist.com)
The example of kuru helped to show how BSE — mad cow disease — spread through the feeding of infected... (newscientist.com)
Gajdusek had just won the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine for unmasking a bizarre disease in Papua New Guinea called kuru, a byproduct of ritualistic cannibalism. (discovermagazine.com)