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Why did a remote tribe in Papua New Guinea experience a mysterious disease outbreak? Was it sorcery or something...darker? Brett and Andy look for the answers so you don't have to!
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By Brett Bayles (a professor) / Andy Pupa (not a professor)
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Why did a remote tribe in Papua New Guinea experience a mysterious disease outbreak? Was it sorcery or something...darker? Brett and Andy look for the answers so you don't have to!
Sources
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- https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/06/482952588/when-people-ate-people-a-strange-disease-emerged
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2581657/
- https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3703763.pdf?casa_token=1afPjfG1sEcAAAAA:U32hy-YTqrJWbeaqRPR6LQldzB_8GUUj5PDwgmEfZsGwjbyggAgw1_OpuOyEUJ_Yldoo-hEL97T_g96IPqyQPBwZ4w_Xp3ilv0UkmWXRj6SNhWhp2rI
- https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1318152/1/1318152.pdf
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673606689307?casa_token=PSucKN1O73IAAAAA:MeseXOkfX0ke1mWkyWte1AQ8HaAaCu6NmbUlmeh4sSSUsIa-3e8Cw0s23yvoZc3TqTyuk5mxkw
- https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.2008.0071
- https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.160789
- http://www.medanthrotheory.org/site/assets/files/5049/sp-lindenbaum-mat-v2_1.pdf
- https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.anthro.30.1.363
- https://www.amjmed.com/article/0002-9343(59)90251-7/abstract
- https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4612-4490-5
- https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=gkceCwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=fore+papua+new+guinea&ots=upOaKZ2zUM&sig=3VILv5c4ww43SXx40CdNaRTQK28#v=onepage&q&f=false