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The changing face of kuru: a personal perspective
The epidemic of kuru is now known to have been transmitted among the Fore by ritual consumption of infected organs from deceased relatives. As cannibalism was suppressed by government patrol officers during the 1950s, most transmission had ceased by 1957, when the kuru research programme first comme...
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The Royal Society
2008
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2581658/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18672465 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0085 |