A mysterious disease has been slowly killing hundreds of Aboriginal people on a remote island at the top of Australia. For a long time many people on Groote Eylandt, about 50km from the Northern Territory, thought they were cursed. The Northern Territory has the highest concentration and the most severe strain of MJD in the world. This protein causes nerve cells to die prematurely in a part of the brain called the cerebellum. This protein causes nerve cells in the brain to die prematurely.

Source: Daily Mail April 06, 2019 01:33 UTC