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MATTHEWS, John D.

MATTHEWS, John D.

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1968 CE

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Kuru and cannibalism.

MATTHEWS, John D.
MATTHEWS, John D. GLASSE, Robert M. (1930 – 1993) LINDENBAUM, Shirley

Medical anthropologists Lindenbaum and Glass demonstrated that Kuru was transmitted in New Guinea by cannibalism--particularly by eating the brains of infected victims, which were the reservoir of prions. Order of aut…