What are the symptoms of kuru?
Symptoms of more common neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease or stroke may resemble kuru symptoms. These include:
difficulty walking
poor coordination
difficulty swallowing
slurred speech
moodiness and behavioral changes
dementia
muscle twitching and tremors
inability to grasp objects
random, compulsive laughing or crying
Keith Richards with the Rolling Stones?
Kuru, the laughing disease, spread by the ingestion of brains, was once common among the Fore people but may have died out. However, anthropological forays into academia reveal a high prevalence of a new transmissible neurologIc disease, the non-laughing disease, spread by ingestion of stupidity. Those affected display delusional thinking on multiple fronts and are utterly unable to laugh at themselves. They tend to react violently when others laugh at their errors.