Kuru Mystery

In the 1950s, a terrifying epidemic struck the Fore people of Papua New Guinea. Victims would suddenly lose coordination, burst into uncontrollable fits of laughter, and inevitably die within months. The locals called it Kuru, the "e;shivering."e; The desperate quest to find the cause led scientists to a shocking cultural practice-and forced them to rewrite the fundamental laws of biology. The K...