In the highlands of Papua New Guinea in the 1950s and 1960s, I noticed that the people of the former tribe (mainly women) were dead of what was considered a genetic disorder since they originally occurred among families.
This disease talks, walks and eats, stops the ability of the affected people to tremble and die.
Well, the Institute of Neurology at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was interested in this strange brain disease. According to Robert Desowitz 's book' Federal Bodysnatchers and New Guinea Virus' he describes in detail how it discovered it was an infectious agent.
A scientist named Carleton Gadjusek sent back the dead woman's brain to the Bethesda laboratory in Maryland. He homogenized several brain tissues and inoculated a chimpanzee called Georgette.
A few years later, Georgette noticed that at the corner of her cage she was being swayed to make her face look empty. Gadjusek believed when it was caused by a "slow virus", but no virus was seen using electron microscopy. Chimpanzees knew that this is a critical disease that we call now infectious spongiform encephalopathy (TSE).
Over 10 years from 1957 to 1968, more than 1,100 people died in the crew. The fore forest was involved in the ritualist massacre. When a tribal person dies, the woman will prepare and consume the corpse. Remove the arms and legs, strip the muscles from the extremities, take out the brain and eat.
Women were also known to give parts of the human brain to children. Dead brain tissue with kills is highly infectious and undergoes death sentence judgment.
The crew is TSE, same as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, cattle mad cow disease, sheep scrapie, chronic fatigue of Elk.
TSE is also known as prion disease. Prions are transferable like microorganisms, but they do not contain nucleic acids, DNA or RNA. Recruit regular proteins and make them in the form of illicit prions that infect other cells. The prions chunk together and accumulate in the brain, which gives the brain a characteristic 'sponge' or Swiss cheese appearance.
The crew incubation period is 2 to 2 years. Symptoms are classified into three stages.
The first stage or ambitious stage includes instability of stance, voice, walking, eyes, tremor, and speech thrashing.
The second or sitting stages are defined by those who can not walk without support, severe tremor, loss of coordination, muscle movement, fits of laughter and mental retardation.
In the final phase, at the final stage, a person can not cause earthquakes, tremor, urinary fecal incontinence, difficulty swallowing and death.
The above symptoms are consistent with dysfunction of the cerebellum, the part of the brain that controls these functions.
There is no treatment for cool and other prion diseases, it is always deadly. Cool has disappeared from the front since caterpillar practice was canceled a few years ago.
