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...Sukarno blames "Western colonialism"; if the country's difficulties begin to cause visible concern at home, he produces hair-raising tales of Dutch, English and U.S. sabotage; and when things really get bad, he trots out the tired, threadbare but ever-serviceable issue of Irian Barat (Dutch New Guinea...
WHEN word reached Australia that a major medical mystery involving a new and invariably fatal disease had appeared in the wilds of New Guinea, TIME sent Brisbane Correspondent Fred Hubbard after the story. A 1,400-mile flight to Port Moresby was only the first step. After that. Hubbard had to go by bush plane over forbidding razorback mountain ranges to a remote patrol post where a white man's back is still an inviting target to a savage spearman. At Okapa, Reporter-Photographer Hubbard got his story and pictures. For the results, see MEDICINE, The Laughing Death...
...eastern highlands of New Guinea, sudden bursts of maniacal laughter shrilled through the walls of many a circular, windowless grass hut, echoing through the surrounding jungle. Sometimes, instead of the roaring laughter, there might be a fit of giggling. When a tribesman looked into such a hut, he saw no cause for merriment. The laugher was lying ill, exhausted by his guffaws, his face now an expressionless mask. He had no idea that he had laughed, let alone why. New Guinea's Fore (pronounced foray) tribe was afflicted by a deadly foe. It was kuru, the laughing death...
...Body, One Ax. Last March, a peripatetic U.S. virologist and pediatrician (with a grant from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis) appeared in New Guinea. Crew-cut Dr. Carleton Gajdusek, 35, of Yonkers, N.Y., heard about kuru and plunged into its problems. Tramping through rain-soaked forests to Fore hamlets, he rounded up patients for the neat, bamboo-walled native hospital at nearby Okapa Patrol Post. To do autopsies, he had to haggle with victims' relatives for the bodies. The currency: axes and tobacco. (Dr. Gajdusek got some bodies at the bargain price of only...
...among the Fore tribesmen remember few cases of kuru before they grew ''grass belong face" (beards). Thus it seems to have become much commoner in the last generation, is estimated to have killed at least 100 Fore in each recent year. It is unknown elsewhere in New Guinea or in the rest of the world. This has led Drs. Gajdusek and Zigas to suspect a genetic defect, with at least a hereditary tendency to the disease. But NIH pathologists at Bethesda have found widespread nerve cell destruction in brains of six kuru victims, suggesting that the cause...