Open AccessReminiscences about kuru and the people of Okapa
Author(s) -
Adolf Saweri
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.2008.4027
Subject(s) - kuru , biology , environmental ethics , geography , philosophy , medicine , scrapie , disease , prion protein , pathology
I first heard of ‘de lachende ziekte’ on Dutch newsprint and radio in 1957 while at high school, then promptly forgot about it until my medical school years. My impression of the first patient I saw demonstrated in clinical neurology class was vague. The first visit to Okapa (1964–1965) was
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