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?
- Fecha de estreno
- 1 de diciembre de 2010
- País de origen
- Aún no disponible
- Música
- Myles Wright
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Reparto
- Russ Harris como Self - Narrator
- Michael Alpers como Self - Medical Researcher
- Pako Ombeya como Self
- Atenamu Bavasa como Self
- Kasam Uvinda como Self
- Taiyabu Tavi como Self
- Shirley Lindenbaum como Self - Anthropologist
- Carleton Gajdusek como Self - Virologist
- Agusa Utigi como Self
- Stanley Prusiner como Self - Biochemist
Equipo
- Rob Bygott · Director(a)
- Rob Bygott · Guionista
- Ben Alpers · Guionista
- Peter Du Cane · Productor(a)
- Francesca Hope · Productor(a)
- Myles Wright · Compositor(a)
- Rob Bygott · Director(a) de fotografía
- Merlin Eden · Editor(a)