‘We had to climb mountains and cross fast-flowing rivers’
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‘We had to climb mountains and cross fast-flowing rivers’
It was Dr Vincent Zigas who first started research into kuru and Dr Carleton Gajdusek joined him later. Vincent would drop us off and pick us up with his Landrover and we would patrol through the kuruaffected region with Carleton. Vincent was from Europe and we had great difficulty in understanding his Tok Pisin. He knew this, so he would purposely talk in a way that made us laugh. He was a goo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.4012