The Adelaide Kuru Team in 1957–1959

The Adelaide Kuru Team in 1957–1959

In 1957, Prof. H. N. Robson, then Head of the Department of Medicine in the University of Adelaide, decided to form a small team to study the new disease kuru, recently reported from the highlands of New Guinea by V. Zigas and D. C. Gajdusek. Henry Bennett (Professor of Genetics) remembers that Robson was encouraged to do this by John Eccles and Sydney Sunderland, then great figures in Australi...

Family and population studies by the Adelaide Kuru Team, 1957–1965

A genealogical survey of some members of the Fore population living near Okapa was carried out by Prof. H. N. Robson and Dr F. A. Rhodes in December 1957. This was shortly after the publication of the first paper on kuru in which Zigas & Gajdusek (1957) reported, inter alia, the unusual sex and age distribution in victims of the disease (with adult males only rarely affected and female victims ...

The University of Adelaide

The University of Adelaide

This report shows how a string of linear code may be converted into a data ow graph (DFG), then to an event ow graph (EFG), and nally into a temporal speciication (TS).

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...