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 The Trembling Mountain, A Personal Account of Kuru, Cannibals and Mad Cow Disease Robert Klitzman NATURAL HISTORY • 2001 • PAPER • 333 PAGES
A medical mystery story set among the Fore people of highland New Guinea. This account of Klitzman's research into the origins of debilitating and incurable kuru focuses on the people and culture as much as on the groundbreaking research on prions (also thought to be the cause of mad cow disease).
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