Assertion: kuru | /r/HasProperty | transmitted to chimpanzee
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text: In the 1950s, Carleton Gajdusek began research which eventually showed that kuru could be transmitted to chimpanzees by what was possibly a new infectious agent, work for which he eventually won the 1976 Nobel prize.
text: In contrast with kuru and CJD, which can be transmitted to chimpanzees and other subhuman primates, scrapie could not be transmitted to chimpanzees although it can be transmitted to other subhuman primates.
text: Carleton Gajdusek won the 1976 Nobel Prize for demonstrating that kuru could be transmitted to chimpanzees [Gajdusek 1966], as could Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), another condition which wreaked havoc on people’s brains.
text: It was the first human prion disease transmitted to chimpanzees and subsequently classified as a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE), or slow unconventional virus disease.
text: Based on Glasse’s findings, as well as on his own discovery that kuru could be transmitted to chimpanzees; Gajdusek concluded that kuru was caused by an infectious agent, spread by the Fore practice of consuming the brains of deceased relatives.
text: This observation had inspired Gajdusek and his colleagues to test the possibility that kuru could be transmitted to chimpanzees, a project that came to fruition in 1966 (Gajdusek, Gibbs, and Alpers 1966), and was the basis for Gajdusek’s Nobel award.