| Location: | Papua New Guinea |
| Subject: | Diseases; health; kuru |
| Length: | 60 minutes |
| Format: | U-matic; 1/2-inch VHS |
| Hue: | Color |
| Year Released: | 1984 |
| Series: | |
| Director: | Jim Black |
| Producer: | Jo Elwyn-Jones; PBS Video |
| Distributor: | ShopPBS |
| Library Code: | NFVLS |
| Description: | Nobel prize-winning pediatrician Carleton Gajdusek searches for the causes of the slow virus kuru, which is decimating a tribe of people in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Also looks at the similarities between Kuru and other degenerative brain diseases such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, GSS, and AlzheimerÕs disease. |
| Record No: | 1011 |
| Resources: | Distributors's List |
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