the prion disease kuru was spread through cannibalism), or even between two different species of animal. In the 1980s, we learned that cows could develop bovine spongiform encephalopathy ...

Certain bacteria and viruses usurp the M cell connection, and prions may do so too. Their passage to humans from tainted food-beef in the case of vCJD, and human flesh decades ago in kuru among the ...

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 ...

Their findings appear in the New England Journal of Medicine. Kuru, a prion disease similar to CJD in humans and BSE in animals, was transmitted at mortuary feasts where - until the practice was ...

Prions, the causative agents of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, appear to consist entirely of PrP Sc, an orderly aggregated, β sheet–rich isoform of a ubiquitous membrane protein ...