The Last Laughing Death | Merveilles - Marvels | Scoop.it

A captivating story of love, death, cannibalism and a 50-year medical riddle in the hills of Papua New Guinea. After 55 years, the final patrol for cases of the mysterious ‘laughing death’ in remote Papua New Guinea has returned from the highlands. From this pursuit came Nobel-winning science, clues to ‘mad cow’ and insights into Alzheimer’s disease. It also revealed a little bit of cannibal hidden in us all...