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Kuru

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Elisabeth Beck  and
Peter Daniel
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Psychological Medicine , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , August 1976 , pp. 343 - 345
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1976

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