Social
Patterns of Transmission
One of the primary factors that facilitate the transmission
of this disease is the culture of the Fore people. Because they believe in the consumption of their
dead to preserve their kinship, they contract they virus when they eat the
brains of their relatives. Women were
primarily the participators of these rituals, and as a result they fed their children
and elderly the same. To the Fore
people, this was the proper way to deal with their dead. This was a widely accepted practice in New
Guinea, and this lead to the transmission of the Kuru Disease.
Here, a doctor examines a young Kuru patient.
Bindon. Home Page. Kuru: The Dynamics of a Prion Disease. Web. 28 Oct. 2013.
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