But it was the discovery of kuru, ravaging the Fore tribes of Papua New Guinea, that spurred the burst of scientific and public interest in prion diseases. Warwick Anderson, an Australian medical ...

The Papua New Guinea tribe developed strong genetic resistance after a major epidemic of the CJD-like disease, kuru, spread mostly by cannibalism. Medical Research Council experts assessed more ...

The Fore people, who reside in Papua New Guinea's Okapa District ... the neurological disease kuru was identified. Anthropologist Shirley Lindenbaum established the connection between the Fore's ...