What disease did Gajdusek study for his Nobel-winning research?
Malaria
Influenza
HIV
Kuru
Answer
Kuru is a rare prion disease. It is endemic in the Fore people of Papua New Guinea, and is thought to have been introduced to the population by the ritualistic practice of eating the brains of deceased relatives. Kuru was first described by Western scientists in the 1950s, and the disease was the subject of a long-running study by D.
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