Degenerative disease of the central nervous system in New Guinea: the endemic occurrence of kuru in the native population

DC Gajdusek, V Zigas - New England Journal of Medicine, 1957 - Mass Medical Soc
DC Gajdusek, V Zigas
New England Journal of Medicine, 1957Mass Medical Soc
DURING the past two years' service as medical officer of the Kainantu Sub-District, Eastern
Highlands of the Australian Trust Territory of New Guinea, one of us (VZ) has had the
opportunity of observing in the inhabitants of the mountain-dissected highlands some 30 to
50 miles southeast of Kainantu (Fig. 1) an unusually high incidence of a syndrome similar to
paralysis agitans affecting children and adults, predominantly females, in natives of the
recently controlled Forei linguistic and cultural group and in their neighbors of the Keiagana …
DURING the past two years' service as medical officer of the Kainantu Sub-District, Eastern Highlands of the Australian Trust Territory of New Guinea, one of us (V.Z.) has had the opportunity of observing in the inhabitants of the mountain-dissected highlands some 30 to 50 miles southeast of Kainantu (Fig. 1) an unusually high incidence of a syndrome similar to paralysis agitans affecting children and adults, predominantly females, in natives of the recently controlled Forei linguistic and cultural group and in their neighbors of the Keiagana, Kanite, Kimi, Usurufa and Auiyana linguistic groups. During the past three months an intensive clinicopathological . . .
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