{"id":62797,"date":"2024-03-24T04:00:30","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/24\/tremors-before-death-unravelling-the-mystery-disease-that-left-entire-papua-new-guinean-villages-without-women"},"modified":"2024-03-24T04:00:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T19:00:30","slug":"kuru-unravelling-the-mystery-disease-that-left-entire-papua-new-guinean-villages-without-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62797","title":{"rendered":"Kuru: unravelling the mystery disease that left entire Papua New Guinean villages without women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New genetic analysis sheds light on the epidemic caused by the practice of mortuary feasting in the Eastern Highlands of PNG mid last century<\/p>\n<p>In the middle of the 20th century the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea was gripped by a mysterious disease which left entire villages without adult women.<\/p>\n<p>The Fore people at the centre of the outbreak called it <em>kuru<\/em> \u2013 the word for shivering \u2013 as people lost control of their limbs and bodily functions before a tremor set in preceding death.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/24\/tremors-before-death-unravelling-the-mystery-disease-that-left-entire-papua-new-guinean-villages-without-women\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New genetic analysis sheds light on the epidemic caused by the practice of mortuary feasting in the Eastern Highlands of PNG mid last centuryIn the middle of the 20th century the Eastern Highlands province of Papua New Guinea was gripped by a mysteriou&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2353,41,1043,503,914,267],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-asia-pacific","category-epidemics","category-indigenous-peoples","category-infectious-diseases","category-papua-new-guinea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62798,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62797\/revisions\/62798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}