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Mad Cows and CJD: A Physicist's View of Prion Brain Diseases

The research of Carleton Gajdusek on a stone-age tribe in Papua New Guinea, who suffered from a mysterious disease, kuru, spread by cannibalism, is described and short extracts from his films will be shown. Some deaths from kuru are still occuring after 45 years. This disease is believed to be cause...

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Autor principal: Morrison, Douglas Robert Ogston
Lenguaje:eng
eng
Publicado: CERN 1997
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/423851