Abstract
At the meeting at the Royal Society on ‘The end of kuru: 50 years of research into an extraordinary disease’, we celebrated the impending end of the kuru epidemic and the achievements of many people who had worked on kuru over the last 50 years. Especially honoured were our two Nobel laureates,
Highlights
At the meeting at the Royal Society on ‘The end of kuru: 50 years of research into an extraordinary disease’, we celebrated the impending end of the kuru epidemic and the achievements of many people who had worked on kuru over the last 50 years
Joe and I were part of the Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies, headed by Carleton Gajdusek, which was based within the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness on the main campus of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
The primate facility was set up in the countryside on land provided by the US Wildlife Service, in the beautiful woods of Patuxent, where Joe and I carried on the daily grind of the first transmission experiments with chimpanzees
Summary
At the meeting at the Royal Society on ‘The end of kuru: 50 years of research into an extraordinary disease’, we celebrated the impending end of the kuru epidemic and the achievements of many people who had worked on kuru over the last 50 years. In early February 1966, we received Elisabeth’s telegram saying that the pathology of the chimpanzee brain was indistinguishable from human kuru, Carleton, Joe and I were all in Bethesda.
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