Kuru: The Science and the Sorcery
Australian scientist Michael Alpers dedicated over 50 years to researching Kuru, an obscure and incurable brain disease unique to the Fore people of New Guinea. Kuru was once thought to be a psychosomatic illness, an infection, a genetic disorder, even a sorcerer's curse, but Alpers' findings pointed to cannibalism as ...
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Judy Davis
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Michael Alpers
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Russ Harris
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Pako Ombeya
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