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.
Thank you so much for doing this sherry. What you did here is beautiful. It helps me understand the context of the book better. I can see it from a different point of view and line up the timelines. Keep up the good work!!
ReplyDeleteI like your timeline because it in chronological order and is outlined by year. It also refreshes me of what I read.
ReplyDeleteI really appreciate the timeline because it helps me outline the clarify the events while reading because it is very complex in the plot. It also shows the progression of each disease and how they are in relation to each other (kuru,scrapie, and TME).
ReplyDeleteI like your timeline because you focused on what Gajdusek did and other scientist to progress in finding out more information on what kuru is and the leads such as scrapie as well
ReplyDeleteTHANK YOU! IT KEEPS ME TO UNDERSTAND BETTER. NOW, I UNDERSTAND HOW DOES IT LEAD TO OTHERS.
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