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Mark Purdey,
Does your
thesis on the cause of Mad Cow in England have any relevance to
explaining Kuru in New Guinea as explained by Carlton Gajdusek and Frank
Macfarlane Burnet.Richard Rhodes' book "Deadly Feast" talks of
this a bit.
Thanks,
Martin
McPherson, Canada.
ANSWER
Dear Martin,
Yes, my theory can account for the cause of the kuru TSE in the Fore
tribe in Papua New Quinea. As you know , this has been officially blamed
upon cannibalism - but that was practised all over New Quinea, so why
did Kuru only erupt in a tiny pocket of the country ?
I was field studying out in the Far East this spring and investigated a
cluster of CJD in the Fuji valley in Japan . It turned out that there
was a factory in the mouth of the valley that had been producing the
aluminium-manganese alloy panelilng for military bomber aircraft since
before World War two. The prevailing wind had dispersed the emissions of
manganese particulates all the way up the valley. It was therefore
interesting that the temporal-spatial epidemiology of this CJD cluster
precisely correlated with both the start up dates and distribution of
airborne pollutants of this factory . My soil/vegetation analytical data
that I collected confirmed this.
Intriguingly, some of the Japanese bombers which were manufactured from
the alloy plating produced at this factory, got shot down during WW2
over Papua New Quinea jungles where the Fore tribe lived. Kuru TSE had
supposedly first erupted in these people about five plus years after the
end of the second world war.
So what's the link between these Jap aeroplanes and the contamination of
the Fore tribe? Well, the Fore folk had scavenged these crashed bombers
and started moulding the metal panelling of the fusilages for making
bowls for cooking food over open fires, to eat from, making axes, tools,
etc. The acidic water of their local area caused manganese and aluminium
to leach out of the metal and into their food.
Perhaps the eating of brain in their cannibalistic practises exacerbated
the problem of manganese contamination, by enabling the manganese (which
accumulates in the pituitary gland in the brain) to start
bio-concentrating - a bit like DDT. But cannibalism was practised all
over New Quinea at that time, so , if cannibalism is involved at all, it
could have only accounted for one causal facet of Kuru; and only then if
it was involved in conjunction with an additional prerequisite that was
specific to the district of the Fore - eg; manganese from the panelling
of the crashed bombers
The Fore were self sufficient upon their local copper-deficient
ecosystem, so the manganese contaminant was able to substitute on vacant
copper protein bonds - such as the prion protein - thereby
rendering their brains unable to deal with the intensive sources of low
frequency infrasonic shock in their vicinity - eg; the bombs which they
had accidentally exploded during the scavenging sessions on the crashed
Japanese bomber aircraft( this is well documented), the constant
earthquake tremors of that area (The Fore live over a major tectonic
rift line), the severe electric thunderstorms of that area - Its a very
'infrasonic intense' environment.
Best,
Mark
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