KURU 4 - Sydney Meeting of December 1959 and Subsequent actions

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Series[UMA-SR-000000808] X-Disease, Kuru and Gajdusek FilesAccession[1986.0107] Consolidated Papers of Frank Macfarlane BurnetIdentifierUMA-IT-000030094Extent1 fileScope and ContentInwards and outwards correspondence with: N. McArthur, R.F.R. Scragg, New Guinea Department of Public Health, J. Gunther, D. McCarthy, Department of Territories, J.E. Smadel, H.N. White, National Institutes of Health (U.S.A.), T.E. Lowe, Alfred Hospital, C.C. Curtain, J.H. Bennett, H.N. Robson, University of Adelaide, D.C. Gajdusek (with copies of letters from Gajdusek to others). Mostly on formation of Committee on Control of Kuru. Includes manuscript notes on Kuru, bibliography of papers by D.C. Gajdusek, copies of Committee Report (21 December 1959) copy of 'Report on Kuru and Recommendations for its Further Investigation and Control' by J.T. Gunther (May 1960), copies of Minutes to Meeting (Preliminary meetings for Director, Public Health, Papua New Guinea) for 18-19 May 1962 and Burnet typescript: 'Virology Lecture - Scrapie, aleutian disease, Kuru and NZB' for 19 October 1963Access StatusOpen for public accessRequest TypeRequest unitUnit1986.0107 Unit 0045

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CreatorBurnet, Frank MacfarlaneRoleProvenance

Dates

Date3 September 1959 -25 November 1963

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Finding Aid Reference10/006

University of Melbourne Archives

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KURU 4 - Sydney Meeting of December 1959 and Subsequent actions