COMMENTARY: Gibbs CJ Jr, Amyx HL, Bacote A, Masters CL, Gajdusek DC. Oral transmission of kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, and scrapie to nonhuman primates. J Infect Dis 1980; 142:205-208.

Comments on the article "Oral Transmission of Kuru, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, and Scrapie to Nonhuman Primates," by Clarence J. Gibbs Jr., et al, in the August 1980 issue of "The Journal of Infectious Diseases." Overview of human prion diseases; Findings from epidemiological studies of kuru; Steps that are likely involved in the spread of prion infectivity to the central nervous system after oral inoculation.