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1 entries match Asia & Pacific [Z01.586] · Microbiology & Virology [C01.748] · Professions & Education [M01 / N02]

1968 CE

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Kuru and cannibalism.

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…