Stanley’s Dream: The Medical Expedition to Easter Island by Jacalyn Duffin (review)

The major difference between the New Guinea and Rapa Nui expeditions is that Gajdusek was awarded the 1976 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for his discovery of the first “slow virus,” later found to be a prion, a wholly new mechanism of human disease causation, whereas Skoryna was awarded noth...

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