Mortuary practices, genetics and other factors relevant to the transmission of kuru in Papua New Guinea
The large-scale epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in the United Kingdom (UK) created significant fears of a possible threat to public health. This threat was realized in 1996 when variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) was first recognized in the UK and was attributed to the oral...
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University College London (University of London)
2011
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.565378 |