Similar words: kurd, kurta, kurdish, kurtosis, guru, durum, taurus, burundi. Meaning: n. 1. a progressive disease of the central nervous system marked by increasing lack of coordination and advancing to paralysis and death within a year of the appearance of symptoms; thought to have been transmitted by cannibalistic consumption of diseased brain tissue since the disease virtually disappeared when cannibalism was abandoned 2. 100 kurus equal 1 lira in Turkey.
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1. Kuru is caused by a slow virus.
2. The link between kuru and cannibalism seemed clear enough.
3. Kuru was spreading like a plague.
4. By 1965 they had shown that kuru was transmissible.
5. Hadlow noticed that the vacuoles in Gajdusek's kuru brains resembled those he'd seen in sheep.
6. The Fore knew kuru as a curse cast by sorcerers.
7. Prions cause a number of fatal diseases such as mad cow disease in cattle, scrapie in sheep and kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans.
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