Assertion: kuru | /r/HasProperty | transmitted
Facets:
value: during endocannibalistic feasts
type: TEMPORAL
value: through eating infected brains
type: MANNER
value: by eating infected nervous tissue
type: MANNER
value: due to ritualistic cannibalism
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: Brain tissue from individuals with kuru was highly infectious, and the disease was transmitted either through eating or by contact with open sores or wounds.
text: It confirms kuru is transmissible and can cross the species barrier.
text: Gajdusek wanted to test the idea that kuru was a transmissible disease, rather than caused by environmental or genetic factors, “
text: Kuru is a transmissible prion disease that causes progressive brain damage.
text: Brain tissue from individuals with kuru was highly infectious, and the disease was transmitted either through eating or by contact with open sores or wounds.
text: Kuru was transmitted due to ritualistic cannibalism.
text: Their research established that kuru, a deadly disease afflicting the Fore, was transmitted through eating infected brains as part of traditional mortuary cannibalism.
text: I made a brief appearance on HuffPostLive on Wednesday, to talk about kuru, a human form of mad cow disease' that is transmitted by eating infected nervous tissue.
text: Kuru is largely restricted to the Fore linguistic group of the Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands and was transmitted during endocannibalistic feasts (Mead et al., 2003).
text: Hadlow sent a copy of the letter to Gajdusek, while also suggesting that somebody should inoculate primates with kuru brain tissue to test whether kuru, like scrapie, might be transmissible.
text: In view of the Fischers’ finding, and not yet knowing that kuru is transmissible, in 1963 Gajdusek hypothesized that kuru is a hypersensitivity disease, triggered by consuming human tissue.
text: The importance of Klatzo’s observation concerning CJD and kuru became clearer after Gajdusek discovered that kuru is a transmissible disease (see below).
text: At any rate, Gajdusek had established that kuru is a transmissible disease.