The Fore, the tribe that had the kuru epidemic, lived within walking distance of the Kuku kuku, a tribe of baby rapers.
Kuru couldn't be transmitted to chimpanzees orally. Had to be injected into the bloodstream. Or inocullated directly on the exposed brain.
Women and children got kuru. Women and children in the kuru region also suffered from Iodine deficiency. The treatment was to inject them with iodinated olive oil.
Target population for DCG "experiment".
Blood transmission of neurodegenerative disease. WWII freeze dried serum incident. Serum transmitted the disease, so did the equipment used to process the serum. recipients of disease free serum, that is the donors had no neurological disease, came down with the same neurological disease as the recipient of the diseased serum, the disease somehow persisting on the processing equipment.
So disease with unknown etiological agent, persists in medical equipment.
This had been observed in brain surgery. Instrument tranmitted disease.
so what? The thing is that DCG may have been a genius, and no one proved that he went and killed the Fore, but you know you could nab a sheep or goat with scrapie, drain its csf, and make a scrapie/CJD injection kit, and find some spear chuckers, and recreate the kuru epidemic.
Of course, I could be wrong. How do I produce kuru? ?Goat thyroid. Source of powdered thyroid in the old days. Scrapie infected goat processed into thyroid powder. It would be nice if I could find in the older literature, a case of fatal neuropathy in a patient who received goat powdered thyroid, the goat having scrapie. Or even better, a case of fatal neuropathy in a patient getting injected with a suspension of goat thyroid, and a corresponding lack of neuropathy in patients taking infected goat thyroid orally.
