Sentences with phrase «humans kuru»
In humans kuru and Creutzfeldt - Jakob disease, both fatal neurological diseases, come into the same category.
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A genetic mutation protecting against kuru — a brain disease passed on by eating human brains — only emerged and spread in the past 200 years.
Human prion diseases include fatal insomnia; kuru; Gerstmann - Straussler - Scheinker syndrome; and variant, familial and sporadic CJD.