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Kuru vs Ruru - What's the difference?

kuru | ruru |

As nouns the difference between kuru and ruru

is that kuru is a chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the fore and neighboring peoples of new guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism while ruru is (nz) the morepork.

kuru

English

Noun

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  • A chronic, progressive, fatal central nervous system disease found mainly among the Fore and neighboring peoples of New Guinea, caused by a prion that probably resembles the scrapie agent of sheep, transmissible to nonhuman primates, and believed to be transmitted by ritual cannibalism.
  • * 1999 , (Matt Ridley), Genome , Harper Perennial 2004, p. 273:
    • By the kate 1950s, kuru was the leading cause of death among Fore women, and it had killed so many that men outnumbered women by three to one.

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    ruru

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (NZ) The morepork.
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