Kuru: A disease of love and loss

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Kuru: A disease of love and loss

MedScoop

15 minutes 9 seconds

4 weeks ago

Kuru: A disease of love and loss

In this episode I discuss the gripping story of kuru from funeral rites to exploring how mouring revealied the existence of prions.

I also cover three fascinating discoveries in medicine from the past month.

https://www.cdc.gov/prions/about/index.html

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/books/NBK559103/

https://www.who.int/teams/radical-innovation- access/prion-diseases

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC397180/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6466359/