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The Kuru disease has an incubation period of ten to thirteen years, thus infected peoples are well into adulthood.
abnormally folded proteins multiply in the brain.
After symptoms appear, death occurs within a year because of starvation.
THERE IS NO CURE
Popular in the 1950s-1960s
spread throughout the Fore tribe in New Guinea.
The Fore Tribe ritualistically ate the tissues of their deceased family members.
the ingested family members directly transmitted the disease through infected brain tissue or open sores.
A fatal brain disease derived from a prion (misfolded protein).
This infectious disease belongs to a group called TSEs (AKA: Prion Diseases).
A group of abnormal proteins clump together and form in the brain of the infected.
The disease is almost nonexistent today because cannibalism is highly discouraged by society.
Scientists from NINDS believe healthy proteins mimic the abnormally folded ones and deformed proteins multiply.
Eating brain tissue that contains contaminated and infectious particles.
In order to determine whether someone has the disease, doctors use a neurological exam that shows changes in coordination and walking ability.
the test includes medical history, neurological function, and blood tests.
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/kuru/kuru.htm
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001379.htm
http://www.healthline.com/health/kuru#Research