Kuru

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Kuru was a rare, incurable, and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. It was a prion disease that caused tremors and loss of coordination from neurodegeneration. The term kúru means 'trembling' and comes from the Fore word kuria or guria ("to shake").

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