Assertion: kuru | /r/CapableOf | represent novel class of diseases
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text: The recognition of kuru as a neurodegenerative disease that is transmissible (, infectious is a microbiological term) [ 14 18 ] and subsequent transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) [ 19 ] not only proved that kuru is not merely an exotic disease caused by cannibalism on a remote island, but it represents a novel class of diseases caused by a novel class of pathogens.
text: The definition of kuru as both neurodegenerative (not inflammatory) and infectious [ 14 15 ] led to subsequent transmission of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD) [ 16 ] and suggested that kuru represents a novel class of diseases caused by a novel class of pathogens called prions.