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- D. Carleton Gajdusek
Living among the Fore, studying their language and culture, and performing autopsies on kuru victims, Gajdusek came to the conclusion that the disease was transmitted in the ritualistic eating of the brains of the deceased, a Fore funeral custom. Gajdusek became the head of laboratories for virological and…
Read MoreLiving among the Fore, studying their language and culture, and performing autopsies on kuru victims, Gajdusek came to the conclusion that the disease was transmitted in the ritualistic eating of the brains of the deceased, a Fore funeral custom. Gajdusek became the head of laboratories for virological and…
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…system found primarily among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea.
Read More…system found primarily among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea.
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