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Smadel-Gajdusek Correspondence, 1955-1958 Correspondence on the Discovery and Original Investigations on Kuru Smodel — Gajdusek Correspondence 1955-1958 / l(V*-f Correspondence on the Discovery and Original Investigations on Kuru Smadel-Gajdusek Correspondence, 1955-1958 Edited by D.C. Gajdusek Study of Child Growth and Development and Disease Patterns in Primitive Cultures National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland April, 1975 k PREFACE These letters speak for themselves. They document the discovery and the origins and pursuance of the first year of study of kuru in great detail and should serve to dispel any misconceptions about who did what and answer many hows, whens, and whys about the early field work and laboratory investigations on kuru. Sufficient time has elapsed since Dr. Vincent Zigas and I published our first account of kuru to transcribe this correspondence without any deletions. Only minor errors of spelling, grammar and punctuation have been corrected. Errors in observation, interpretation, and judgement stand as they were committed in writing. I trust that the edification they may achieve will pardon any lack of discretion in presenting them. D. Carleton Gajdusek, M.D. -1- r L ACKNOl'JLEDGEMENT Above all else, the publication of these letters is a tribute to the late Dr. Joseph E. Smadel who had so much to do with the first year of our kuru investigation and who provided me with the base laboratory at the National Institutes of Health in which we later were able to demonstrate the slow virus etiology of kuru, the first proved slow virus infection of man. These letters are mostly a correspondence between him and me. They reflect, however, the various other persons who contributed extensively or peripherally to the early study of kuru. Dr. Vincent Zigas, with whom I carried out all the first year of study of kuru in the field, writes or is written to but seldom in these letters except when he is co-author with me. We worked closely together for the whole year from the first moment that he told me about kuru. He left to me most of the liaison with colleagues who could support and assist us. It was he, running in and out of Okapa to his hospital and the airstrip at Kainantu, who provided the lifeline of support on which all our studies were based. Dr. Frank MacFarlane Burnet, Dr. Cyril Curtain, Dr. Gray Anderson, Dr. John Eccles, Dr. Robert Walsh, Dr. Margaret Holmes, Miss Lois Larkin and the late Dr. Roy T. Simmons in Australia had much to do in providing our first laboratory studies. Dr. John Gunther, Dr. Roy Scragg, Dr. A.V.G. Price and Dr. Terry Abbott of Port Moresby were all instrumental in helping us in the pursuit of our investigations. Miss Elizabeth Jackson, Dr. Smadel 's collaborator, kept all these records and laboratory specimens sorted and filed at the NIH and supplies moving to us in the field. -3- ANU Australian National University AMSGS Army Medical Service Graduate School NEJM New England Journal of Medicine NFIP National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis NIH National Institutes of Health TPNG Territory of Papua and New Guinea US DA United States Department of Agriculture WNG West New Guinea WRAIR Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Letters between Dr. Smadel and Dr. Gajdusek are arranged chrono- logically and numbered. Associated materials such as letters from either author to other individuals, manuscripts, and reports are given the number of the letter to which they apply most directly with an additional alphabetic code, e.g., 2a and 14a. "Enclosures" refers to materials that definitely accompanied letters between the two authors, and "^pendices" include material that, although it has a direct bearing on the subject of the correspondence, was pro- bably not enclosed with any of these letters. -4- k. : : . CONTENTS Correspondence on the Discovery and Original Investigations on Kuru Smadel - Gajdusek Correspondence, 1955-1958 From To Written at Date 1. J. E. Smadel D. C. Gajdusek WRAIR 16 September 1955 2. J. E. Smadel D. c. Gajdusek WRAIR 12 December 1955 Appendices 2a. J. E. Smadel T. E. Woodward AMSGS 20 September 1955 2b. J. E. Smadel W. B. Fairchild AMSGS 19 October 1955 3. J. E. Smadel D. C. Gajdusek WRAIR 27 December 1955 4. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel WEHIMR 4 :January 1956 Enclosure: 4a. D. C. Gajdusek: Papers in progress, in press, in draft form, or suggested for the meetings 5. J. E. Smadel D. C. Gajdusek WRAIR 19 January 1956 Appendix: 5a. J. E. Smadel M. Ba.Itazard WRAIR 6 January 1956 6. J. E. Smadel D. C. Gajdusek NIH 6 March 1956 Appendix 6a. J. E. Smadel C. E. Coffey WRAIR 8 March 1956 7. J. E. Smadel D. C. Gajdusek NIH 8 March 1956 8. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel WEHIMR 26 April 1956 9. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel WEHIMR 5 June 1956 10. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel WEHIMR 7 June 1956 11. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel WEHIMR 28 September 1956 12. J. E. Smadel D. C. Gajdusek NIH 11 December 1956 13. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel WEHIMR 29 December 1956 14. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel TPNG 15 March 1957 Enclosure: 14a. D. C. Gajdusek F. M. Burnet TPNG 15 March 1957 S. G. Anderson I. Wood 15. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel TPNG 20 March 1957 Enclosure: 15a. D. C. Gajdusek F. M. Burnet TPNG 20 March 1957 S. G. Anderson I. Wood -5- : : From To Written at Date 16. J. E. Smadel D. C. Gajdusek NIH Enclosures 16a. J. E. Smadel E. A. Hildreth NIH 28 March 1957 16b. E. A. Hildreth D. C. Gajdusek Maloney Clinic 15 February 1957 16c. J. E. Smadel M. C. Morris NIH 29 March 1957 17. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel TPNG 3 April 1957 18. J. E. Smadel D. C. Gajdusek NIH 9 April 1957 Enclosure 18a. J. E. Smadel T. M. Ri vers NIH 9 April 1957 19. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel TPNG 14 April 1957 Enclosure: 19a. D. C. Gajdusek F. M. Burnet TPNG 20. J. E. Smadel D. C. Gajdusek NIH 22 April 1957 Enclosures: 20a. J. G. Greenfield: Recommendations for removal and fixation of the brain 20b. M. C. Morris J. E. Smadel NFIP 23 April 1957 21. Smadel D. C. Gajdusek NIH 1 May 1957 Enclosure 21a. P. Bailey: Protocol for removal and fixing brains under jungle conditions 22. J. E. Smadel D. C^ Gajdusek NIH Mid-^4ay 1957 Enclosures 22a. P. Bailey J. E. Smadel NIH 7 May 1957 22b. W. K. Engel p. Bailey NIH 7 May 1957 23. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel TPNG c. 22 May 1957 24. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel TPNG 28 May 1957 25. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel TPNG Late May 1957 26. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel TPNG Enclosure; 26a. D. C. Gajdusek A. V. G. Price TPNG 27. J. E. Smadel D. C. Gajdusek NIH 29 May 1957 Enclosures 27a. J. E. Smadel T. M. Rivers NIH 29 May 1957 27b. T. M. Rivers J. E. Smadel NFIP 21 May 1957 28. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel TPNG 30 May 1957 29. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel TPNG 7 June 1957 Enclosure (2 aerogrammes): 29a. D. C. Gajdusek F. M. Burnet TPNG 4 June 1957 S. G. Anderson -6- : : From To Written at Date 30. J. E. Smadel D. C. Gajdusek NIH 25 June 1957 31. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel TPNG 29 June 1957 32. C. G. Baker D. C. Gajdusek NIH 7 July 1957 (for J. E. Smadel) Appendices 32a. J. E. Smadel J. Garland NIH July 1957 32b. D. C. Gajdusek Ed. Science TPNG 17 June 1957 32c. G. DuShane J. E. Smadel Science 1 July 1957 32 d. G. DuShane J. E. Smadel Science 3 July 1957 32 e. D. C. Gajdusek, V. Zigas:Zi gas : KuruKutu: A Localized "Epidemic" of Chronic Prog- ressive Degenerative Disease of the Central Nervous System in Child, Adolescent, and Adult Natives of the Eastern Highlands of Australian New Guinea. 32f. C. G. Baker G. DuShane NIH 5 July 1957 32g. E. Wipf D. C. Gajdusek NIH 2 July 1957 33. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel TPNG 8 July 1957 Enclosure: 33a. D. C. Gajdusek T. K. Abbott TPNG 4 July 1957 V. Zigas 34. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel TPNG 10 July 1957 35. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel TPNG 25 July 1957 Appendices 35a. R. M. Berndt R. F. R. Scragg Perth 9 July 1957 35b. C. Julius R. F. R. Scragg TPNG 28 February 1957 36. C. G. Baker D. C. Gajdusek NIH 26 July 1957 (for J. E. Smadel) 37. J. E. Smadel D. C. Gajdusek NIH Appendices 37a. J. Garland J. E. Smadel NEJM 12 July 1957 37b. J. E. Smadel J. Garland NIH 6 August 1957 38. D. C. Gajdusek J. E . Smadel TPNG 6 August 1957 39. J. E. Smadel D. C. Gajdusek NIH 13 August 1957 40. J. E. Smadel D. C. Gajdusek NIH 16 August 1957 Enclosure: 40a. I. Klatzo J. E. Smadel NIH 15 August 1957 Appendix: 40b. H. A. Imus J. E. Smadel NIH 8 August 1957 41. D. C. Gajdusek J. E. Smadel TPNG 16 August 1957 -7- : : : From To Written at Date 42. D. C. Gajdusek. J. E. Smadel TPNG 25 Augus t 1957 Appendix: 42a. T. M. Rivers D. C. Gajdusek NFIP 5 August 1957 43. J. E. Smadel D. C. Gajdusek NIH 30 August 1957 Enclosures 43a.
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