Jamie Dlux explores the work of physicist Carleton Gajdusek, a co-recipient of a Noble Prize in 1976, for his theories on the transmission of kuru. This is a rare, generally incurable and often fatal neurodegenerative disease first detected among the Fore people of Papua New Guinea.
Gajdusek linked kuru outbreaks in the 1950s and 1960s to the practice of funerary cannibalism, as he observed Fore people digesting the muscles and brains of deceased relatives. Subsequently, this cannibalism was outlawed and the disease promptly disappeared across Papua New Guinea.
A cargo cult is an indigenist millenarian belief system. It is often characterized as one in which adherents perform rituals that they believe will cause their deities, ancestors, or a more technologically advanced society to deliver goods. More from Robert Sepehr, author and anthropologist.
What is kuru? How did a deadly disease once limited to a single tribe, the Fore, in the outback of New Guinea spread outward to the wider world?
Here’s a look at Carleton Gajdusek, a pediatrician who has worked as a virologist for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIH) for decades. In 1957, he traveled to New Guinea to study kuru, a disease that attacks the brain, rendering the victim spasmodic and paralyzed until death. More from Jamie Dlux.
At first glance, the southern cassowary, native to Papua New Guinea and northern Australia, appears to be a creature right out of the Cretaceous Period, 65 million years ago. Armed with powerful legs and lethal talons, and a prominent, helmet-like casque, the cassowary is regarded as the most dangerous and prehistoric species of bird on the planet, and the closest animal of any kind to a living dinosaur. Adventurer and wildlife expert Coyote Peterson came face-to-face with this unusual bird at Jungle Island in Miami, Fla. More from Brave Wilderness.
Did Nancy Pelosi want to take all of her children and grandchildren out of the country so they would not be present during an assassination attempt on President Trump? That is one of the premises McAllisterTV explores in her latest video. Also in this video:
A discussion of kuru, the rare, neurodegenerative disorder that primarily affects cannibals. In other words, it’s an affliction primarily found in New Guinea as well among high-ranking Democratic politicians in the US of A. Think Al Gore, baby!
Chuck Schumer and Heidi Fleiss. Did Schumer parlay his friendship with Fleiss to procure adolescents, mostly young boys, for sex?
Here is the YouTube channel McAllisterTV mentions — Blessed to Teach, a channel with a Christian focus. Here, the attention turns to the evil Nancy Pelosi and the blood moon-blood lusting-bloodthirsty Democrats in Congress.
T.R. U Reporting also gets into the alleged plot, focusing on the Twitter feeds of Greg Rubini. We do not know, obviously, if any of this conjecture is true, but Pelosi and Schiff trying to leave the country, at the same time on military transport planes with scores of relatives joining them, certainly fuels this speculation.
