Publication

2008 - Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, Maryland

Language

English

Word Count

79,500 words, Guess

Page Count

318 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • DDC616.80092
  • LCCRC394.K8 A53 2008
  • LCCRC394.K853

Description

This account of medical detective work traces the story of kuru, a fatal brain disease, and the pioneering scientists who spent decades searching for its cause.

Subjects

Topics

KuruHistoryDiseasesBiographyCannibalismVirologistsNeurologists

Genres

  • Biography

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