Open AccessKuru fieldwork in 1981 … and beyond
Author(s) -
Robert Klitzman
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.2008.4016
Subject(s) - kuru , history , geography , philosophy , environmental ethics , medicine , scrapie , prion protein , disease , pathology
In 1981, I was fortunate to be able to conduct epidemiological fieldwork on kuru and the experience forever changed me. At the time, the prevalence and incidence had both declined markedly. Yet, clusters of cases still occurred in various villages and questions arose of whether these were the
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