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{"id":5297,"date":"2015-04-07T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T15:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2022-11-13T15:30:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T20:30:28","slug":"d-carleton-gajdusek-and-kuru-in-new-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2015\/04\/07\/d-carleton-gajdusek-and-kuru-in-new-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"D. Carleton Gajdusek and Kuru in New Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By John Rees<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A new archival collection, <a title=\"NLM's Archives and Modern Manuscripts Finding Aids\" href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.nlm.nih.gov\/repositories\/4\/resources\/952\">The D. Carleton Gajdusek Papers, 1918\u20132000<\/a>, is now available at the National Library of Medicine for\u00a0those interested in virology and the ethnography and anthropology of Melanesia and Micronesia. Gajdusek was a pediatrician, virologist, and chemist whose research focused on growth, development, and disease in primitive and isolated populations and winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine for his discovery of <a title=\"NLM's PubMed Central\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC2575417\/\">Kuru in Papua New Guinea<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5318\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5318\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dcg-birken-resized.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5318\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2015\/04\/07\/d-carleton-gajdusek-and-kuru-in-new-guinea\/dcg-birken-resized\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dcg-birken-resized.jpg?fit=800%2C545&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,545\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D7100","caption":"????????????????????????????????????","created_timestamp":"1402998288","copyright":"","focal_length":"60","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.0125","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"D. Carleton Gajdusek and Jack Baker\" data-image-description=\"<p>Lucy Hamilton PNG 1957 vol. 1, Box 159<\/p>\n\" data-image-caption=\"<p>D. Carleton Gajdusek and Jack Baker, 1957.<br \/>\nD. Carleton Gajdusek papers. MS C 565<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dcg-birken-resized.jpg?fit=300%2C204&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dcg-birken-resized.jpg?fit=800%2C545&ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-5318 size-medium\" title=\"D. Carleton Gajdusek and Jack Baker, 1957.\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dcg-birken-resized.jpg?resize=300%2C204&ssl=1\" alt=\"Two white men in short sleves stand outside a house.\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5318\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">D. Carleton Gajdusek and Jack Baker, 1957.<br \/><a title=\"NLM's Archives and Modern Manuscripts Finding Aids\" href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.nlm.nih.gov\/repositories\/4\/resources\/952\"><em>D. Carleton Gajdusek papers. MS C 565<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Daniel Carleton Gajdusek was born on September 9, 1923 in Yonkers, New York. In 1943, he graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Rochester with a BS in biophysics. Gajdusek received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1946 and performed a postdoctoral fellowship (physical chemistry) at the California Institute of Technology in 1948 under the tutelage of Linus Pauling. Drafted by the military in 1951, he served as a research virologist at the Walter Reed Medical Service Graduate School. He also studied viral diseases, fevers and plague in Iran, Afghanistan and Turkey. Gajdusek often said he was more proud of his anthropological studies among the Fore and Anga people of Micronesia than he was of his clinical research.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5319\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/on-road-resized.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5319\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2015\/04\/07\/d-carleton-gajdusek-and-kuru-in-new-guinea\/on-road-resized\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/on-road-resized.jpg?fit=531%2C800&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"531,800\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D7100","caption":"????????????????????????????????????","created_timestamp":"1402998142","copyright":"","focal_length":"60","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.01","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"on-road-resized\" data-image-description=\"<p>Lucy Hamilton PNG 1957 vol. 2, Box 159<\/p>\n\" data-image-caption=\"<p>D. Carleton Gajdusek and Jack Baker on a newly built road from Okapa to Purosa, Papua New Guinea, 1957.<br \/>\nD. Carleton Gajdusek papers. MS C 565<\/p>\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/on-road-resized.jpg?fit=199%2C300&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/on-road-resized.jpg?fit=531%2C800&ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-5319 size-medium\" title=\"A newly built road in Papua New Guinea, 1957\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/on-road-resized.jpg?resize=199%2C300&ssl=1\" alt=\"Two men in shorts stand on a dirt road with low mountains in the background.\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">D. Carleton Gajdusek and Jack Baker on a newly built road from Okapa to Purosa, Papua New Guinea, 1957.<br \/><a title=\"NLM's Archives and Modern Manuscripts Finding Aids\" href=\"https:\/\/findingaids.nlm.nih.gov\/repositories\/4\/resources\/952\"><em>D. Carleton Gajdusek papers. MS C 565<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1955, he took a research position in Australia, which led to his interest in New Guinea, the vast island to the north of Australia. There he conducted research on a disease known as <a title=\"NIH: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ninds.nih.gov\/Disorders\/All-Disorders\/Kuru-Information-Page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kuru<\/a>, a degenerative neurological disorder that was rampant among the people of the South Fore tribe (Papua New Guinea). The word Kuru is derived from the Fore word meaning \u201cto be afraid\u201d and “to shiver.” With Kuru he proved the transmissibility of a kind of organism, dubbed a “slow, unconventional virus,” that establishes a long-lasting infection and eventually can cause a disease. Gajdusek’s research concluded that the disease, also called the “Laughing Sickness,” could also be caused by the tribe’s custom of honoring the dead by eating their brains. Changes in the brain of patients with Kuru demonstrated that the disease shared certain features with the infectious disease Scrapie and with Creutzfeldt-Jakob’s disease. Neurologist Stanley Prusiner later identified the infectious agent as an unexpected rogue form of protein called a prion. Gajdusek and Baruch S. Blumberg received the <a title=\"Nobel Prize\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/medicine\/laureates\/1976\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1976 Nobel Prize<\/a> “for their discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases.”<\/p>\n<p>Gajdusek was named Director of Laboratories for Virological and Neurological Research for the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) in 1958. In 1970, he was named Chief of Laboratory of Central Nervous System Studies at NINDS. Gajdusek was convicted on child molestation charges in 1997. After his 1998 release from jail, where he worked on two books and published five scholarly papers, he divided his time between Paris, Amsterdam, and Tromso, Norway. Gajdusek died in Tromso Dec. 12, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>D. Carleton Gajdusek Papers contain a limited amount fieldwork and epidemiological data but no lab notebooks are in the collection, especially any related to Gajdusek’s Nobel Prize work on Kuru.\u00a0 However, many of the original genealogical studies and Kuru stories collected by Gajdusek and his Australian partner Michael Alpers survive. A large majority of Gajdusek’s documentary film collection was transferred from the Peabody Essex Museum by Alpers to Curtin University in Perth, Australia. Other videocassette films produced by Gajdusek and Richard Sorenson were transferred to the <a title=\"Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, National Anthropological Archives, Human Studies Film Archives\" href=\"http:\/\/anthropology.si.edu\/naa\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smithsonian’s Human Studies Film Archive<\/a> (HSFA).<\/p>\n<p>The full complexity of Gajdusek’s life and research is comprehensively documented in the Photographs and Journals series of the collection including an amazing breadth and depth of black and white and color photographs from across Gajdusek’s life experiences. These are most accessible by the chronologically arranged photo albums subseries where one can experience the sights of Gajdusek’s research travels across the Pacific, Iran, and Russia; the Nobel awards ceremony; his field labs; interactions with all varieties of peoples; and clinical images of the diseases he studied as manifested in their hosts. Photographs from his personal travels throughout the U.S. and Europe, along with friends and family in Yonkers, N.Y. and Maine (Deer Spring), at home in Chevy Chase and Frederick, Md. (Prospect Hill), are also well-represented.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tiled-gallery type-rectangular tiled-gallery-unresized\" data-original-width=\"840\" data-carousel-extra='{"blog_id":1,"permalink":"https:\\\/\\\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\\\/2015\\\/04\\\/07\\\/d-carleton-gajdusek-and-kuru-in-new-guinea\\\/","likes_blog_id":"52242398"}' itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageGallery\" > <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 840px; height: 372px;\" data-original-width=\"840\" data-original-height=\"372\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 556px; height: 372px;\" data-original-width=\"556\" data-original-height=\"372\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2015\/04\/07\/d-carleton-gajdusek-and-kuru-in-new-guinea\/okapa-building-resized\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"552\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"368\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"5324\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/okapa-building-resized.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,534\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D7100","caption":"????????????????????????????????????","created_timestamp":"1402998786","copyright":"","focal_length":"60","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.04","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Kuru research center at Okapa Patrol Post\" data-image-description=\"<p>Gajdusek 1957 New Guinea Kuru Patrol vol. 3, Box 161<\/p> \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/okapa-building-resized.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/okapa-building-resized.jpg?fit=800%2C534&ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/okapa-building-resized.jpg?w=552&h=368&ssl=1\" width=\"552\" height=\"368\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"552\" data-original-height=\"368\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Kuru research center at Okapa Patrol Post\" alt=\"A small group of thatched buildings at the foot of a hill surrounded by hedges and fields.\" style=\"width: 552px; height: 368px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Under construction Kuru research center at Okapa Patrol Post, built by US and Australian research team and islanders, 1957. D. Carleton Gajdusek papers. MS C 565. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-2\" style=\"width: 284px; height: 372px;\" data-original-width=\"284\" data-original-height=\"372\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2015\/04\/07\/d-carleton-gajdusek-and-kuru-in-new-guinea\/spirit-hole-resized\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"280\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"187\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"5323\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/spirit-hole-resized.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,535\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D7100","caption":"????????????????????????????????????","created_timestamp":"1402998557","copyright":"","focal_length":"60","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.0125","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"A charm-burning ritual to exorcise evil spirits.\" data-image-description=\"<p>Gajdusek 1957 Papua New Guinea vol. 9 color prints, Box 157<\/p> \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/spirit-hole-resized.jpg?fit=300%2C201&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/spirit-hole-resized.jpg?fit=800%2C535&ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/spirit-hole-resized.jpg?w=280&h=187&ssl=1\" width=\"280\" height=\"187\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"280\" data-original-height=\"187\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"A charm-burning ritual to exorcise evil spirits.\" alt=\"A group of Fore people sitting and standing around a pit in the ground.\" style=\"width: 280px; height: 187px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Kivung in 1957 at Pujarasa to abolish Kur sorcery. The Fore believe Kuru was caused by evil spirits that could be exorcised in a charm-burning ritual. <\/div> <\/div> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2015\/04\/07\/d-carleton-gajdusek-and-kuru-in-new-guinea\/taking-vitals-resized\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"280\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"177\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"5325\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/taking-vitals-resized.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,505\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D7100","caption":"????????????????????????????????????","created_timestamp":"1402997970","copyright":"","focal_length":"60","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.0125","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Examining Patients\" data-image-description=\"<p>Gajdusek 1957 Papua New Guinea vol. 6 b\/w prints, Box 157<\/p> \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/taking-vitals-resized.jpg?fit=300%2C189&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/taking-vitals-resized.jpg?fit=800%2C505&ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/taking-vitals-resized.jpg?w=280&h=177&ssl=1\" width=\"280\" height=\"177\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"280\" data-original-height=\"177\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Examining Patients\" alt=\"a white man uses a stethescope on a black patent seated on the ground outdoors while another withe man and a group of black men in milatary style uniforms and indigenous dress look on.\" style=\"width: 280px; height: 177px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Donald Simpson, neurosurgeon, and Dr. David Lander, internist, from University of Adelaide at Okapa to see Kuru patients, 1957.D. Carleton Gajdusek papers. MS C 565 <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 840px; height: 299px;\" data-original-width=\"840\" data-original-height=\"299\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 404px; height: 299px;\" data-original-width=\"404\" data-original-height=\"299\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2015\/04\/07\/d-carleton-gajdusek-and-kuru-in-new-guinea\/frolicking-resized\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"400\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"295\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"5321\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/frolicking-resized.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,590\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D7100","caption":"????????????????????????????????????","created_timestamp":"1402998026","copyright":"","focal_length":"60","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.016666666666667","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Frolicking in Papua New Guinea\" data-image-description=\"<p>Lucy Hamilton PNG 1957 vol. 2, Box 159<\/p> \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/frolicking-resized.jpg?fit=300%2C221&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/frolicking-resized.jpg?fit=800%2C590&ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/frolicking-resized.jpg?w=400&h=295&ssl=1\" width=\"400\" height=\"295\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"400\" data-original-height=\"295\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Frolicking in Papua New Guinea\" alt=\"A group of young white people entertain themselves with a guitar and beverages.\" style=\"width: 400px; height: 295px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Kuru Research workers jesting outside of the first permanent residence at Okapa Patrol Post, 1957. D. Carleton Gajdusek papers. MS C 565. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 436px; height: 299px;\" data-original-width=\"436\" data-original-height=\"299\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2015\/04\/07\/d-carleton-gajdusek-and-kuru-in-new-guinea\/dcg-microscope-resized\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"432\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"295\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"5320\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dcg-microscope-resized.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,545\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D7100","caption":"????????????????????????????????????","created_timestamp":"1402999608","copyright":"","focal_length":"60","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.066666666666667","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Using a Microscope.\" data-image-description=\"<p>DCG 57 NG vol. 1-4, Box 164 <\/p> \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dcg-microscope-resized.jpg?fit=300%2C204&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dcg-microscope-resized.jpg?fit=800%2C545&ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/dcg-microscope-resized.jpg?w=432&h=295&ssl=1\" width=\"432\" height=\"295\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"432\" data-original-height=\"295\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Using a Microscope.\" alt=\"Three white men in shorts and tee shirts take notes and use a microscope in a rustic wood-paneled room.\" style=\"width: 432px; height: 295px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> Vincent Zigas, Jack Baker, and D. Carleton Gajdusek analyzing samples, Okapa patrol post, 1957. D. Carleton Gajdusek papers. MS C 565. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <div class=\"gallery-row\" style=\"width: 840px; height: 489px;\" data-original-width=\"840\" data-original-height=\"489\" > <div class=\"gallery-group images-1\" style=\"width: 840px; height: 489px;\" data-original-width=\"840\" data-original-height=\"489\" > <div class=\"tiled-gallery-item tiled-gallery-item-large\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2015\/04\/07\/d-carleton-gajdusek-and-kuru-in-new-guinea\/taking-blood-resized\/\" border=\"0\" itemprop=\"url\"> <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"836\"> <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"485\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" data-attachment-id=\"5326\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/taking-blood-resized.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,464\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"3","credit":"","camera":"NIKON D7100","caption":"????????????????????????????????????","created_timestamp":"1402998192","copyright":"","focal_length":"60","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.016666666666667","title":"","orientation":"1"}\" data-image-title=\"Taking Blood\" data-image-description=\"<p>Lucy Hamilton PNG 1957 vol. 1, Box 159<\/p> \" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/taking-blood-resized.jpg?fit=300%2C174&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/taking-blood-resized.jpg?fit=800%2C464&ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/taking-blood-resized.jpg?w=836&h=485&ssl=1\" width=\"836\" height=\"485\" loading=\"lazy\" data-original-width=\"836\" data-original-height=\"485\" itemprop=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/image\" title=\"Taking Blood\" alt=\"Two white men take blood from a young black youth outside a building, other black adults and youths look on.\" style=\"width: 836px; height: 485px;\" \/> <\/a> <div class=\"tiled-gallery-caption\" itemprop=\"caption description\"> D. Carleton Gajdusek and John Berkin collecting blood from school children at the Okapa Patrol Post. Kuru Research Assistant Evesa stands facing camera behind DCG and Native Medical Orderly Sinoko stands in rear right, 1957. D. Carleton Gajdusek papers. MS C 565. <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <!-- close group --> <\/div> <!-- close row --> <\/div>\n<p>The Correspondence series of the collection includes a mixture of personal and professional including a large Nobel Prize subseries covering his award activities. In addition to his own correspondence, the series also contains the correspondence of his mother, Ottilia Gajdusek.<\/p>\n<p>Other materials are organized thematically in the Subject Files series. Kuru-related epidemiological data is found here, along with background articles and correspondence on the wide variety of research and thought experiments conducted by Gajdusek or his partners. Of particular interest is a series of interviews conducted in 2005 with the Fore natives that helped Gajdusek in his 1950s research. These interviews shed light on the Fore’s funereal and other socio-cultural practices, Gajdusek’s sometimes controversial data collecting methods, and other Anglo-Fore ethnographic relationships and conflicts. There are four subseries containing data from other research projects: encephalitis patient history records from his work with a 1958 Pan American Sanitary Office study in Guatemala; a 1959 epidemic in Bolivia within a village of refugees from Uruma, Japan; a Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease study; a study by lab partner M. K. Nicholson on epilepsy and rats; an unknown ALS study from 1962; and Fais Islander serological studies. Materials on these same topics are also scattered throughout individual folders within the series at large. There is also a large subseries of photographs and other images used to illustrate Gajdusek’s publications. The Writings series content is similar in scope to Subject files along with a bound set of Gajdusek’s collected reprints from 1950-1985 and a set of his Kuru-related research reprints from 1957-1966.<\/p>\n<p><em>The D. Carleton Gajdusek papers consist of over 411 boxes of correspondence, subject files, journals, photographs, maps, awards, and electronic media. Gajdusek’s multi-disciplinary interests make the collection extremely diverse and appealing to researchers in several disciplines including anthropology, biology, ethnology, geography, linguistics, medicine, primitive arts, and psychology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/john-rees.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2191\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/2013\/10\/29\/martin-cummings-and-transformative-change-at-nlm\/john-rees\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/john-rees.jpg?fit=1437%2C1151&ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1437,1151\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"2.8","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 4","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1341088872","copyright":"","focal_length":"3.85","iso":"80","shutter_speed":"0.066666666666667","title":"","latitude":"39.316166666667","longitude":"-76.413"}\" data-image-title=\"John Rees\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/john-rees.jpg?fit=300%2C240&ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/john-rees.jpg?fit=840%2C673&ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-2191\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/john-rees.jpg?resize=105%2C84\" alt=\"Portrait of John Rees outside on the water.\" width=\"105\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a>John Rees is Archivist and Digital Resources Manager for the Archives and Modern Manuscripts Program in the History of Medicine Division at the National Library of Medicine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Rees A new archival collection, The D. 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