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Kuru: The Science and the Sorcery

Name: Kuru: The Science and the Sorcery
Released: 2010-12-01

8.0

•20100h 52m

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Movie Info

8.0

Cinescore

Community Voted1

DirectorRob Bygott

Theater1 Dec 2010

StreamingTBA

Runtime0h 52m

Age

U/A13+

StatusRELEASED

Audio

English (Original)

Subs

English (Original)

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Genres

Documentary

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 Alpers' findings pointed to cannibalism as the culprit. Yet a recent discovery has proven to be even more disturbing: the malady is linked to mad cow disease and its human equivalent, variant CJD. With a decades-long incubation period, could a larger outbreak be on its way?

Cast

Judy Davis

Self - Narrator (voice)

Michael Alpers

Self

Russ Harris

Self

Pako Ombeya

Self

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