The Kuru Mystery (Search for the Killers episode 1) (1984) (no video link)
Title
The Kuru Mystery (Search for the Killers episode 1) (1984) (no video link)
Subject
Papua New Guinea
Slow virus diseases
Fore (Papua New Guinean people)--Medicine
URL
No video link found. This content is associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library originally recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. No link has yet been found to provide online access and the original videotape has not yet been digitized.
Description
Content description from Worldcat (https://www.worldcat.org/title/kuru-mystery/oclc/225726288):
In the 1950's a plague swept the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea. It was called Kuru - the trembling sickness. Follows June Goodfield as she retraces the steps of Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek and others as they attempted to find the reasons for, and the cause of the disease. Also looks at the similarities between Kuru and other degenerative brain diseases found in Western society today such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, GSS and Alzheimer's disease.
Ephemera: none available
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In the 1950's a plague swept the Fore tribe of Papua New Guinea. It was called Kuru - the trembling sickness. Follows June Goodfield as she retraces the steps of Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek and others as they attempted to find the reasons for, and the cause of the disease. Also looks at the similarities between Kuru and other degenerative brain diseases found in Western society today such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, GSS and Alzheimer's disease.
Ephemera: none available
Limitations: This page displays video content associated with a videotape in the CCDR Collections audiovisual library recorded by Joann W. Kealiinohomoku. Please be advised that, because this videotape has not yet been digitized for direct access, we cannot guarantee that the video content on this page is an exact match with the content originally recorded by Dr. Kealiinohomoku. We also cannot guarantee function or access for re-hosted video content.
Original Format
TV broadcast recorded off air by JWK: Betamax tape
Creator
Jim Black (director)
Michael Latham (series producer)
Dr. June Goodfield (host and writer)
Jo Elwyn-Jones (producer)
Publisher
Video Arts Television
WGBH
Date
1984
Citation
“The Kuru Mystery (Search for the Killers episode 1) (1984) (no video link),” Cross-Cultural Dance Resources Collections, accessed March 17, 2025, https://ccdrcollections.omeka.net/items/show/504.