"It was thought that anyone who attended a mortuary feast and ate infected brain tissue would die of kuru," says Mead. "But that was not correct. When the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical ...
A genetic study in an extraordinarily remote community in Papua New Guinea has uncovered new insights ... a fatal neurodegenerative condition called kuru – which is related to Creutzfeldt ...
The Papua New Guinea tribe developed strong genetic resistance after a major epidemic of the CJD-like disease, kuru, spread mostly by cannibalism. Medical Research Council experts assessed more ...