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Kuru is a medical condition that affects the brain and nervous system. Kuru is caused by the transmission of abnormally folded prion proteins found in the brain and is infectious. This disease was found in some people of New Guinea who engaged in ritual cannibalism and ate the infected brains of dead people with the condition.

Kuru is related to :-

BSE (Mad Cow disease)

Scrapie

CJD (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease)

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