Assertion: kuru | /r/HasProperty | due
Facets:
value: to a transmissible agent
type: CAUSE
Source sentences:
text: [Aside 4: The Fischers were quite prescient in their 1961 report, speculating that kuru is due to a transmissible agent, and that cannibalism might be the way by which it is transmitted between the Fore people.
text: (1966, 1967)) suggested that kuru is due to a 'slow virus.'