Kuru , a disease of natives living in New Guinea , was shown in1959 to be similar to scrapei .
库鲁病是一种在新几内亚的土著人中传染的疾病。
Kuru is a prion disease related to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease ( CJD ) in humans and bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( mad cow disease ) .
库鲁病是一种与库兹菲德-雅各氏症和疯牛病有关的朊病毒疾病。