Kuru, mycotoxins and volcanic eruptions
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R. Schoental
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Article
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1990
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Kuru (known also as the 'laughing disease') is a progressive degenerative disorder of the nervous system, restricted to the Fore tribe of the central highlands in Papua New Guinea, mainly in the sub-district of Okapa, drained by the Lamari and Yani rivers.l-\* Kuru is characterized by tremor, ataxia