Kuru

Kuru ndi matenda amanjenje.

Kuru ndi matenda osowa kwambiri. Amayambitsidwa ndi mapuloteni opatsirana (prion) omwe amapezeka m'mitsempha yaubongo wamunthu yoyipa.

Kuru amapezeka pakati pa anthu ochokera ku New Guinea omwe amadya anzawo momwe amadya ubongo wa anthu akufa monga gawo lamaliro. Mchitidwewu unayima mu 1960, koma milandu ya kuru inanenedwa kwa zaka zambiri pambuyo pake chifukwa matendawa amakhala ndi nthawi yayitali. Nthawi yokwanira ndi nthawi yomwe zimatengera kuti zizindikiritso ziwonekere atadziwitsidwa kwa wothandizirayo yemwe amayambitsa matenda.

Kuru imayambitsa ubongo ndi dongosolo lamanjenje kusintha kofanana ndi matenda a Creutzfeldt-Jakob. Matenda ofananawo amapezeka mu ng'ombe monga bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), yotchedwanso matenda amisala ya ng'ombe.

Choopsa chachikulu cha kuru ndikudya minofu yaubongo wamunthu, yomwe imatha kukhala ndimatenda opatsirana.

Zizindikiro za kuru ndizo:

• Kupweteka kwa mkono ndi mwendo
• Mavuto okonzekera omwe amakula kwambiri
• Kuvuta kuyenda
• Mutu
• Kumeza vuto
• Kugwedezeka ndi kugwedezeka kwa minofu

Kuvuta kumeza ndikulephera kudzidyetsa kumatha kudzetsa kuperewera kwa zakudya m'thupi kapena njala.

Nthawi yayikulu yosungunuka ndi zaka 10 mpaka 13, koma nyengo yakusungitsa zaka 50 kapena kupitilira apo yafotokozedwanso.

Kuyezetsa kwa mitsempha kumatha kuwonetsa kusintha pakugwirizana komanso kuyenda bwino.

Palibe chithandizo chodziwika cha kuru.

Imfa imachitika pasanathe chaka chimodzi chisonyezo choyamba chikayamba.

Onani wothandizira zaumoyo wanu ngati muli ndi vuto loyenda, kumeza, kapena mavuto. Kuru ndizosowa kwambiri. Wothandizira anu adzalepheretsa matenda ena amanjenje.

Matenda a Prion - kuru

• Central dongosolo lamanjenje ndi zotumphukira zamanjenje

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