MERKEZ BANKASI POLİTİKA FAİZ ORANI VE DÖVİZ KURU İLİŞKİSİ: TÜRKİYE ÖRNEĞİ

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Kuru memories from 1957

These and other letters, including a letter from Dr L. I. Taft reporting on the first brain the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute (WEHI) received, are not included in the published Gajdusek correspondence of the early days. On 4th February, John Gunther sent another letter to Gray Anderson in which he wrote, ‘The Government Anthropologist has visited Fore and informs me the Administration is losi...

A history of kuru.

Kuru is placed in its geographic and linguistic setting in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The epidemic of kuru has declined over the period 1957 to 2005 from more than 200 deaths a year to 1 or none. Since transmission of the kuru prion agent through the mortuary practice of transumption ceased by the early 1960s, the continuation of the epidemic into the present century demonstrate...

My kuru adventure

1. 1962 During my first employment as a Medical Officer in the Public Health Service of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea, I was, after an induction period in Goroka, offered a posting to Okapa for several months. I was accompanied by my wife Theresa and our 18-month-old son. The pilot who flew us there in a Cessna seemed to feel pity for the young family he had to carry to ‘such a remote p...

Reflections on kuru

My association with kuru came long after the disease had dwindled to fewer than 25 patients annually. By the time I became interested in the disease, cannibalism had ceased (Alpers 1968, 1970), and the suggestion had been made that kuru was a transmissible disorder based on its neuropathological similarities with scrapie (Hadlow 1959). The experimental transmission of kuru to non-human primates...