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central nervous system, kuru, degenerative nerve disease, a prion, infectious protein, transmitted to humans via contaminated human brain tissue, kuru, extremely rare prion disease, exclusively found among people from new guinea, who practiced a form of cannibalism, the brains of dead relatives were eaten, funeral ritual, kuru causes, neurodegenerative changes similar to another prion disease, creutzfeldt-jakob disease, occurs sporadically around the world, which risk factors, unknown, similar prion diseases appear in sheep, scrapie, mink, encephalopathy, in cows, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, bse, "mad cow disease", main risk factor, the development of kuru is eating human brain tissue, contain the infectious particles, kuru, difficulty walking, increasing incoordination, eventually, become severe, tremors, muscle jerks, in the later stages, difficulty swallowing, inability to feed oneself lead to malnutrition, starvation, incubation period, time it takes, symptoms develop, up to 30 years, longer, death, occurs, a year, onset of symptoms, difficulty walking, cerebellar ataxia, incoordination, swallowing difficulty, a neurologic evaluation, characteristic changes in coordination, gait in someone who, have been exposed, no treatment is currently available, kuru, the prion diseases, kuru is universally fatal, have any gait disturbance, swallowing difficulty, incoordination, kuru is extremely rare, less than 10 cases per year, diagnosed, in the world, severe neurologic disorders, cause these symptoms, evaluated, risk of kuru has diminished considerably, the discontinuation of cannibalism, ritualistic practices that expose humans to infectious brain tissue.