1954
- Bjorn Sigurdsson described an Icelandic form of
scrapie, rida, and proposed that such infections should be called “slow viruses”.
1959
September
- Carleton Gajdusek returns to Bethesda to
find out more about scrapie.
November
- Hadlow and Gajdusek met for the first time
in Washington. They compare notes on kuru and scrapie and discussed inoculating
primates.
1960
Early 1960
- Gajdusek returns to New Guinea and Ziga’s wife
declared herself sick with kuru.
May
- Gajdusek write a letter to Joe Smadel on his results of
his studies on kuru.
Winter
- Gajdusek returns to the U.S. and visits the major
scrapie research centers in Compton, Edinburgh, and Iceland.
1961
- The Fish and Wildlife Service agreed to Gajdusek
project.
Summer
- Gajdusek and Joe Smadel tries to recruit Bill Hadlow to run
the primate inoculation program.
End of 1961
- Michael Alpers arrived in the South Fore of Australia
with his family and was assigned for two years as a government physician to
study kuru.
1963
Summer
- The U.S. Public Health Service asked Hadlow to
examine disease mink from a ranch in Blackfoot, Idaho.
