- TV Movie, Documentary
- 89 min
D Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for the discovery of Prions - the particles that would emerge as the cause of Mad Cow disease - while working with a cannibal tribe on New Guinea.
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- Bosse LindquistNarrator
- Michael AlpersHimself - Professor of Medicine - Expert on Kuru
- Warwick AndersonProfessor in Medical Anthropology
- Sena AnuaMedical Reporter - PNGIMR
- Daniel Carleton GajdusekHimself - Virologist - Anthropologist - Linguist - Author - etc
- Robert GajdusekBrother
- Robert GalloHimself - Director, Institute of Human Virology and Co-discoverer HIV
- Oliver SacksHimself - Professor of Neurology and Author
- Lovisa MbagintaoSecretary
- Benoît B. MandelbrotHimself - Former Professor of Mathematics - Yale and Princeton (as Benoit Mandelbrot)
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- Bosse LindquistDirector
- Bosse LindquistWriter
- Bernhard WinklerEditor
- Jonas KellagherProducer
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