1pm
Room 515, Level 5, 207 Bouverie Street, Carlton
Presented by Shirley Lindenbaum, Professor Emerita of the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
The epidemic of kuru, a fatal disease that has long burdened the Fore people of Papua New Guinea, appears to be approaching an end. Since its peak in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the number of kuru deaths has declined, and only two deaths have occurred in the past five years. The last recorded death was in 2005 in a patient with an incubation period of 50 years or more. The sense of relief experienced by those who have been close to the epidemic is now accompanied by the urge to comprehend the significance of those 50 years.
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