Kuru, nicknamed "laughing disease" or "laughing death", was much more common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea back in the 1950s and 1960s than it is now - in fact, it is considered to ...

with stops at scrapie (which makes sheep scrape incessantly against fence posts), mad cow disease and kuru, the illness that plagued those people in Papua New Guinea. Kuru spread via cannibalism ...

A “tsunami threat” was issued for some parts of the coast of Papua New Guinea. The U.S. Tsunami Warning System said waves of 3 to 10 feet above normal tidal levels were possible near the quake ...

Earthquake of Magnitude 6.6 Strikes Northeast of Angoram, Papua New Guinea, USGS Says (Reuters) -A magnitude 6.6 earthquake struck northeast of Angoram, Papua New Guinea, early on Wednesday ...

Images from the air and the ground have revealed the huge breadth of the devastating landslide that has left as many as 2,000 people buried under rubble in Papua New Guinea. Satellite imagery from ...