Hugtakasafn þýðingamiðstöðvar utanríkisráðuneytisins
Hugtakasafn : Eitt hugtak
- ÍSLENSKA
- kúru-riðusýkill
- ENSKA
- kuru
- Svið
- lyf
- Dæmi
- væntanlegt
- Skilgreining
- [en] fatal nervous system disease caused by a slow virus. It is seen almost exclusively in one tribe, the Fore, in New Guinea, and spread by rites associated with cannibalism. Kuru may be transmitted among the natives in New Guinea not through eating corpses or carrion but rather through excessive and unsafe handling of infected brains. It is also the primary cause of death among the Fore, a lethality that has been confirmed in animal experiments: chimps inoculated with brain tissue taken from human victims sicken and die with kuru-like symptoms (IATE)
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- ÍSLENSKA annar ritháttur
- kuru-riðusýkill
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