Kuru: The Science and the Sorcery (2010)
52 min
Australian scientist Michael Alpers dedicated over 50 years to researching Kuru, an obscure and incurable brain disease unique to the Fore people of New Guinea. Kuru was once thought to be a psychosomatic illness, an infection, a genetic disorder, even a sorcerer's curse, but Alpers' findings pointed to cannibalism as the culprit. Yet a recent discovery has proven to be even more disturbing: the malady is linked to mad cow disease and its human equivalent, variant CJD. With a decades-long incubation period, could a larger outbreak be on its way?
- Release date
- December 1, 2010
- Country of origin
- Not yet available
Trailer
Cast
- Russ Harris as Self - Narrator
- Michael Alpers as Self - Medical Researcher
- Pako Ombeya as Self
- Atenamu Bavasa as Self
- Kasam Uvinda as Self
- Taiyabu Tavi as Self
- Shirley Lindenbaum as Self - Anthropologist
- Carleton Gajdusek as Self - Virologist
- Agusa Utigi as Self
- Stanley Prusiner as Self - Biochemist
Crew
- Rob Bygott · Director
- Rob Bygott · Writer
- Ben Alpers · Writer
- Peter Du Cane · Producer
- Francesca Hope · Producer
- Myles Wright · Composer
- Rob Bygott · Cinematographer
- Merlin Eden · Editor