Para (currency) Para (currency) The para (Cyrillic: пара, from Turkish "para", from Persian "pārah", "piece" ) was a former currency of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Montenegro, Albania and Yugoslavia and is the current subunit, although rarely used, of the Serbian dinar. As a former Ottoman and Turkish currency, it was 1/40 of a "kuruş", which was, in turn, 1/100 of a Turkish lira. It was also earlier 3 "akçe" The modern Turkish lira is only divided into "kuruş". In Serbia, the "para" has been the subunit of the dinar since the 19th century. The Montenegrin perper was subdivided into 100 "pare" during
Kuru (disease) Gajdusek in 1976. Subsequently, E. J. Field spent large parts of the late 1960s and early 1970s in New Guinea investigating the disease, connecting it to scrapie and multiple sclerosis. He noted similarities in the diseases interactions with glial cells, including the critical observation that the infectious process may depend on structural rearrangement of the host's molecules. This was an early observation of what was to later become the prion hypothesis. Kuru (disease) Kuru is a very rare, incurable and invariably fatal neurodegenerative disorder that was formerly common among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. Kuru is caused by