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From the archives: Kuru, the disease that foreshadowed BSE

10 July 2019

BSE or mad cow disease ravaged UK cattle in the 1980s. Sixty years ago, the little-known Kuru disease gave early warning of its still-unclear human effects

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From the archives: Kuru, the disease that foreshadowed BSE

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