Kuru, nicknamed "laughing disease" or "laughing death", was much more common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea back ...

Gruesome Ritual. The Fore people, estimated to number 10,000 and only now emerging from the Stone Age, live in a 240-square-mile area 90 miles west of the famed World War II battlefield of Lae ...

The indigenous Fore people were experiencing a horrific epidemic of rapid brain-wasting disease. The illness was claiming otherwise healthy people, often taking their lives within months of diagnosis.

February 28 is Rare Disease Day, dedicated to raising awareness for the 300 million individuals globally affected by uncommon illnesses. As such, we take look at one rare ailment which caused ...