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Chapter 2: KuruA young woman sat in the corner of the mud hut. Though she was bone thin, it was the look on her face that startled her visitor. The woman's face was expressionless. Her eyes were blank. The lack of expression was so profound, in fact, that she could have been wearing a flesh colored mask. Every few minutes, a fluttering tremor ran through her body, as if she was shivering uncontrollably from a cold wind.
Vincent Zigas observed the woman as he sweated inside the hot, humid hut. Zigas had never seen symptoms like these before. He learned that the woman had kuru. She had been bewitched, he was told. There were many women and children in the village who had been bewitched by powerful sorcerers and they would all die, or so the story went. Nobody recovered from kuru.
Zigas was a young German Lithuanian docto ...
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