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Graph showing the total number of deaths from kuru from 1957, when investigations started, till 2011. The last recorded case of kuru was in 2009. The numbers of deaths in those aged less than 20 years and among males are also shown. By the end of the epidemic there were equal numbers of male and female cases from childhood exposure, all aged in their late 50s or early 60s; since transmission ceased in the 1950s, these cases had incubation periods of 50 years or more.
