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Did you read about this in Guns, Germs, and Steel by any chance?
by Y_Y 6y ago
Did you read about this in Guns, Germs, and Steel by any chance?
- todd8 6y agoI do have the book, it's quite interesting, but I read about Kuru while it was still thought to be caused by an infectious virus. My recollection is a bit vague, but I believe it was in Time or Newsweek during the 1960s. It was a scary sounding disease so I remembered it when years later it was discovered to be caused by prions and reported in The New York Times.