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Related Subjects: |Dementias |Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker Syndrome (GSS) |Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI) |Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (CJD) |Variant Creutzfeldt Jakob disease (vCJD) |Kuru
The name kuru means “to shiver" or “trembling in fear." It is now thought that kuru first arose in a single individual from a spontaneous change that created a pathogenic, infectious agent in the brain, in the same way that sporadic Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease occurs which got passed to others by ingestions