Mortuary rites of the South Fore and kuru

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1510, 2008, Pages 3721-3724

  Whitfield, Jerome T ^a,b,c   Pako, Wandagi H ^c   Collinge, John ^a   Alpers, Michael P ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c PAPUA NEW GUINEA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

Fore; Kuru; Mortuary rites

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; INOCULATION; PRION DISEASE;

BOVINAE; KURU PRION;

EID: 53749094680     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0074     Document Type: Conference Paper

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