Como a ciência descobriu os Príons?

Lito Sousa has been diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. The hope he has today began over a hundred years ago, in a story no one has told. How to help Lito now: Subscribe and activate the notification bell on Lito's channel, Aviões e Músicas — each subscription and view helps keep his channel running. On Instagram, tag the institutions researching experimental treatments: @ionis_pharma, @broadinstitute, @harvard, @mayoclinic. Lito's family asked for just that: visibility to try to make these treatments accessible. This video is a tribute to Lito Sousa, creator of the Aviões e Músicas channel, and at the same time a historical investigation into the disease he faces. The story begins in 1920, in Germany, with two neurologists trying to describe a very rare and almost impossible-to-study disease. The video follows an epidemic called kuru in an isolated tribe in Papua New Guinea and shows the role Catholic missionaries played in enabling science, decades later, to make a discovery that redefined the understanding of this type of disease. In the end, the video connects this chain of events with the present: the laboratories and research centers that are now working on experimental treatments, and how you can help give more visibility to Lito's case. Join our community: [link] Learn about Santa Carona: [link] Chapters: 00:00 Opening — Lito Sousa's diagnosis 01:23 Help Lito's channel (Planes and Music) 01:58 The origin of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease 04:31 The kuru epidemic in the Fore tribe 08:09 The Church enters the story 10:54 The discovery of prions and today's hope 14:20 Final tribute to Lito