Kuru disease

English Etymology From en for kúru trembling, shivering.Scott Graham The Fore Language of Papua New Guinea 1978 Pacific Linguistics 2, 6 10.15144/PL-B47 978-0-85883-173-5 Zigas V. Gajdusek D. C. Kuru: Clinical study of a new syndrome resembling paralysis agitans in natives of the Eastern Highlands of Australian New Guinea Medical Journal of Australia 23 November 1957 2 21 745-754 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1957.tb60287.x Perhaps eventually from Proto-Gorokan *kút(V) (“dangling, shaking”) if cognate with the reduplicated element of ygr gúli gúli hu- be loose, rattle. Noun - A rare, fatal prion disease of the Fore people of Papua New Guinea, causing progressive neurological decline and historically transmitted through mortuary endocannibalism. References