Kuru: The Science and the Sorcery

Kuru: The Science and the Sorcery
201052 min
Documentary

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Overview

Australian scientist Michael Alpers dedicated over 50 years to researching Kuru, an obscure and incurable brain disease unique to the Fore people of New Guinea. Kuru was once thought to be a psychosomatic illness, an infection, a genetic disorder, even a sorcerer's curse, but Alp...

Top Cast

Judy Davis

Judy Davis

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Michael Alpers

Self

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Russ Harris

Self

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Pako Ombeya

Self

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