Open AccessAn account of the last autopsy carried out on a kuru patient
Author(s) -
Ken Boone
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
philosophical transactions of the royal society b biological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.753
H-Index - 272
eISSN - 1471-2970
pISSN - 0962-8436
DOI - 10.1098/rstb.2008.4007
Subject(s) - kuru , autopsy , biology , virology , medicine , scrapie , pathology , disease , prion protein
In my medical school, I learned of two diseases that Papua New Guinea was famous for among the medical profession throughout the world: pigbel and kuru. I was fortunate to be involved in the latter.Over a conversation in Jerome Whitfield's apartment at Pacific Estate in Goroka one evening in 2003
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