"It was thought that anyone who attended a mortuary feast and ate infected brain tissue would die of kuru," says Mead. "But that was not correct. When the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical ...

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 ...

Today is Rare Disease Day, and to mark it, we're taking a look at one condition that killed all those who contracted it in a rather disturbing way.

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 ...

Kuru, otherwise known as the "laughing disease" or "laughing death", imposed a significant threat when it appeared among the Fore people Papua New Guinea in the 1950s and 1960s. The All That's ...

Locals, however, believed that kuru was caused by sorcery ... Although this part of Papua New Guinea covers only just over 11,000 square kilometres and is smaller than Jamaica, the different ...

Kuru, also known as "laughing disease" or "laughing death", was much more common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea back in the 1950s and 1960s. In a post to Instagram, account All That's ...