Assertion: kuru | /r/HasProperty | common
Facets:
value: formerly
type: TEMPORAL
value: with only rare cases
type: OTHER
value: before the 1960s
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: Kuru is a very rare, incurable and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea.
text: This possibility was eventually ruled out, because kuru was too common and too fatal (Lindenbaum, 1979).
text: This possibility was eventually ruled out because kuru was too common and too fatal (Lindenbaum, 1979)
text: Kuru was common before the 1960s with only rare cases currently reported.
text: This possibility was eventually ruled out because kuru was too common and too fatal (Lindenbaum, 1979)
text: It was soon apparent that kuru was too common and too fatal to be a purely genetic disorder unless the hypothetical kuru gene was maintained at high frequency by a mechanism of balanced polymorphism.
text: Kuru is a very rare, incurable and fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea.