Chapter 5 &6
Sketch Master
In Gajdusek's laboratory, lab-technician assistant, Mike Sulima discovered the change of behavior of a kuru patient. In the laboratory, technicians were experimenting on monkeys about the affects of kuru. In addition, on June 28, Sulima was the first to notice a change in a kuru patient namede Georgette. Georgette is a monkey. Through the change of behavior of Georgette, it is obvious that kuru can cause strange behavior. Specifically, Georgette became less active and had a vacant look in her eyes.In addition, her jaws would hang open and her body would tremble in frequent intervals. Consequently, in my opinion, people or animals who are infected with kuru would have inactive and indolent actions. For instance," ...she would suddenly grope for the food that was right there in front of her and how her hand would shake when she would bring the food up."
Through the actions of the monkey, Georgette, we can obviously conclude that kuru have a negative effect and a decomposing affect to the brain. Nonetheless, I just learned another disease that lead to negative affects to the body. Specifically, kuru creates a indolent affect to the body. In addtionally, the personality and mindset have changed from active to passive. The condition of the monkey also ties connections back to the first scenario of the cannibals. Even though researchers were unsure of the real problem of cannibals, however kuru may be the solution. Damage to the brain can alter a person's or an animal's way of thinking and action. Looking back, these obscure conditions may be the reasons why people became cannibals.
I like that you chose this section of the book as your sketch. I agree that kuru is a negative disease and once the conditions are clear, quickly deteriorated. Also, by experimenting on Georgette, Alpers noted that the "Pathology of Georgette Indistinguishable From Human Kuru" (98).
ReplyDeleteI like how you analyzed this scene to show the deterioration of Georgette's health because of the inoculation. It really describes her state of decline with great detail that allows us to imagine what she is going through as well as how it connects with the symptoms of kuru.
ReplyDeleteI like how you chose this important scene to describe about. Georgette developing the symptoms of the kuru disease shows that kuru can be transmitted to chimpanzees, which are the closest primates to humans. This experiment will lead us closer to solving the kuru disease.
ReplyDeleteI like how you chose those scenes because it is main thing of the chapter. I also like how can it help us to discover the disease slowly
ReplyDeleteI agree with Sherry. You chose very specific detains about everything. Keep up the good work!
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