How did PNG villages thrive when the women were wiped out by disease?
Kuru was found only among the Fore people and their immediate neighbours in the Okapa District of the Eastern Highlands Province of PNG.
Source: cosmosmagazine.com
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Kuru was found only among the Fore people and their immediate neighbours in the Okapa District of the Eastern Highlands Province of PNG.
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