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Vinony's link graph records 98 inbound references to โรคคูรู, and connects out to PRNP, infection and incubation period.
It sits within the topics Cannibalism in Oceania, Foodborne illnesses and Health in Papua New Guinea.
Vinony links it to 51 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Pronunciation
- /ˈkʊ.ɹuː/
- Specialty
- Neuropathology , infectious disease
- Symptoms
- Body tremors, random outbursts of laughter, emotional degradation, gradual loss of coordination
- Complications
- Infection and pneumonia during the terminal stage.
- Usual onset
- 5 to 50 years after initial exposure
- Duration
- 11 to 14 months life expectancy after onset of symptoms
- Causes
- Transmission of infectious prion proteins
- Risk factors
- Cannibalism , especially consumption of human brains
- Diagnostic method
- Autopsy
- Differential diagnosis
- Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
- Prevention
- Not eating infected humans
- Treatment
- Supportive care
- Prognosis
- Always fatal
- Frequency
- Extinct (last case in 2009)
- Deaths
- Approximately 2,700
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
2,047 papers- Kuru, the First Human Prion Disease.Viruses · 2019
- Kuru.Contemporary neurology series · 1975
- From Kuru to Alzheimer: A personal outlook.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2021
- Kuru-fifty years later.Neurologia i neurochirurgia polska · 2007
- Kuru: the first prion disease.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2012
via PubMed
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- disease
- Image
- Fore child in advanced kuru stage.png
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- different from
- Kuru Kingdom
- Commons category
- Kuru (disease)
- health specialty
- neurology
- exact match
- identifiers.org/doid/DOID:648
- ICD-9-CM
- 046.0
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Medicine
- has cause
- prion
- medical examination
- histopathology
- symptoms and signs
- dementia
- possible treatment
- symptomatic treatment
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