Unconventional Viruses and the Origin and Disappearance of Kuru
- 2 September 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 197 (4307), 943-960
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.142303
Abstract
Information on the unusual viruses causing kuru and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in man, scrapie in sheep and goats and transmissible encephalopathy in mink is reviewed. Aspects of slow virus diseases caused by conventional viruses are also discussed. Speculations on the origin and disappearance of kuru in cannibalism-practicing tribes in New Guinea are presented.This publication has 46 references indexed in Scilit:
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