Assertion: kuru | /r/CapableOf | reach epidemic proportions
Facets:
value: in papua new guinea
type: LOCATION
value: in the 1950s
type: TEMPORAL
value: among the fore tribe
type: OTHER
value: in the mid-1950s
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Kuru is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE), which reached epidemic proportions in the 1950s in Papua New Guinea among the Fore tribe.
text: Kuru is a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE), which reached epidemic proportions in the 1950s in Papua New Guinea among the Fore tribe.
text: The kuru epidemic lasted almost a century; it started in 1901–1902, reached epidemic proportions in the mid-1950s, and disappeared in the 1990s.