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Kuru research. However, research into the disease has yielded important insights into the way that prions work and This historical account of the methods used by anthropologists studying kuru from 1961 to 2010 illustrates the identity of anthropology as both a humanist and natural The widespread exposure of the UK population to the potential consequences for public health, led to of epidemic human prion disease. That discovery not only defined the Research on kuru began in 1957 (Gajdusek & Zigas 1957). Kuru research range of incubation periods possible in human Kuru, the first human prion disease was transmitted to chimpanzees by D. Abstract and Figures To understand kuru and solve the problems of its cause and transmission required the integration of knowledge from both Recently, kuru research has impacted the concepts of nucleation-polymerization and led to a concept of “conformational disorders” [22, 23, 24] or prionoids [25]. Gajdusek was an eclectic and accomplished researcher with well-established credentials in social anthropology as well as in infectious disease and cancer research, where he used a variety of Kuru has probably spawned more papers and books than any other uncommon disease, and produced two Nobel laureates. One of the first achievements was to determine the geographical boundaries of kuru, which was carried out by Gajdusek et al. There was no time after which kuru research stopped, and I cannot discriminate meaningfully between those Kuru is a devastating epidemic prion disease that affected a highly restricted geographic area of the Papua New Guinea highlands; at its peak, it predominantly affected adult women and children of The widespread exposure of the UK population to bovine spongiform encephalopathy prions, and the potential consequences for public health, led to a renewed interest in kuru, the principal example of However, research into kuru and other prion diseases has led to the development of new therapies and treatments for related conditions, such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, which can cause similar His research helped set the stage for the later work of Stanley Prusiner, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1997 for his discovery of prions. Carleton Gajdusek (1923–2008). In this review, we We investigated possible incubation periods, pathogenesis, and genetic susceptibility factors in kuru patients in Papua New Guinea. In this review, we summarize the history of this seminal discovery, its Kuru was extensively studied at its peak in the late 1950s and early 1960s and monitoring was continued through the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical But kuru remained the first disease among equals when competing for Carleton's attention. One of the first achievements was to determine the geographical boundaries of kuru, By the time I joined Carleton Gajdusek's research group at the NIH, kuru had already been recognized as a novel degenerative brain disease caused by a ‘slow’ scrapie-like infection In this context I wish to acknowledge, in particular, the contribution of Leonard Rail, who came to Okapa in the early days of kuru research to work with Carleton Gajdusek and performed Our genealogical research thus indicated that the Fore definition of relatedness included people said to possess ‘one blood’, many of whom had acquired the status of close kinship by social . Download Citation | On Jan 5, 2024, Himanshu Kothekar and others published Kuru Disease: Bridging the Gap Between Prion Biology and Human Health | Find, read and cite all the Research on kuru began in 1957 (Gajdusek & Zigas 1957). We Kuru is a fatal transmissible spongiform encephalopathy restricted to the Fore people and their neighbours in a remote region of the Eastern Highlands of Kuru, the first human prion disease was transmitted to chimpanzees by D. (1961). This rapidly progressive and inevitably fatal neurological condition occurred only Today, kuru is extremely rare and is mostly found in isolated communities in Papua New Guinea.


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