Across
- 4. Kuru is a ___ disease
- 5. The third and final stage of Kuru
- 6. The practice of eating the placenta after giving birth
- 9. A symptom of Kuru that makes it difficult to swallow
- 10. The practice of eating the flesh of one's own species
- 13. Kuru has a 13 to 50 year ___ period
Down
- 1. The second stage of Kuru
- 2. A complex organ that provides nutrients and oxygen to a fetus during pregnancy
- 3. Kuru is also known as "the ___ disease"
- 6. Kuru is caused by digesting an accumulation of misshapen ___ molecules in the brain
- 7. A symptom including rapid, irregular eye movement
- 8. The first stage of Kuru
- 9. A condition that causes muscle contractions
- 11. A powder made of finely crushed bones that was prescribed to patients in the 16th century
- 12. A disease that can be contracted upon eating infected human brain tissue