Measure the amount of gas used per hour by monitoring your gas meter. Calculate the amount of gas used over a 24 hour period of time and divide it by 24 to obtain the average cubic feet of gas used per hour. Write down the heat production from a cubic foot of the fuel you use.
Symptoms of kuru include difficulty in eating and swallowing food, lack of coordination, headache, difficulty in walking, pain in the arms and legs, muscle tremors, difficulty in talking, bouts of laughing and crying spells. Diagnosis. Kuru is diagnosed through neurological examination and electrodiagnostic tests.
In the 1950s and â60s, a kuru epidemic swept through the South Fore, claiming the lives of more than 1,000 members of the tribe. Later it was established that the disease was transmitted by the tribeâs practice of ritualistic mortuary cannibalism. The word kuru means âshaking deathâ in the Fore language, and describes the characteristic symptoms of the disease.