Unconventional viruses and the origin and disappearance of kuru.

Adolescent Adult Animals Brain/microbiology Cannibalism Child Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/etiology,microbiology,transmission Dementia/etiology Encephalitis, Arbovirus/etiology Female Humans Kuru/etiology,genetics,microbiology,transmission Male New Guinea Pan troglodytes Pedigree Prions Scrapie/etiology Sheep Slow Virus Diseases/etiology Viruses, Unclassified/isolation & purification

Prions