Kuru (penyakit): Perbedaan antara revisi

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| name = Kuru

 

Meskipun masyarakat Fore berhenti mengkonsumsi daging manusia pada tahun 1960an, ketika terdapat dugaan penularan karena kanibalisme, penyakit kuru belum hilang karena [[masa inkubasi]] yang lama, dari 10 hingga 50 tahun.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001379.htm|title=Kuru: MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia|website=medlineplus.gov|language=en|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref> Wabah menurun dengan drastis setelah masyarakat menghentikan kanibalisme, dari 200 kematian per tahun pada 1957 menjadi tidak ada kematian pada 2010 dan seterusnya, dengan perdebatan apakah pasien kuru terakhir meninggal pada tahun 2005 atau 2009.<ref>{{Cite book|url=http://search.informit.com.au/search;res=e-library|title=Papua New Guinea medical journal.|last=Papua New Guinea|last2=Department of Public Health|last3=Medical Society of Papua New Guinea|date=1971|publisher=Dept. of Public Health.|location=Port Moresby|language=English|oclc=505914678}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/health/news/a48393/sick-eating-human-meat/|title=Here's What Happens to Your Body When You Eat Human Meat|last=Rense|first=Sarah|date=2016-09-07|website=Esquire|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210100829/http://www.med.monash.edu.au/news/2009/michael-alpers-biography.html|title=A life of determination|date=2015-12-10|website=web.archive.org|access-date=2020-03-03}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Collinge|first=John|last2=Whitfield|first2=Jerome|last3=McKintosh|first3=Edward|last4=Beck|first4=John|last5=Mead|first5=Simon|last6=Thomas|first6=Dafydd J.|last7=Alpers|first7=Michael P.|date=2006-06-24|title=Kuru in the 21st century—an acquired human prion disease with very long incubation periods|url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(06)68930-7/abstract|journal=The Lancet|language=English|volume=367|issue=9528|pages=2068–2074|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68930-7|issn=0140-6736|pmid=16798390}}</ref>

 

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