Oliver Sacks and Paul Alan Cox proposed that consumption of cycad-eating fruit bats was the cause of a neurodegenerative disease endemic to this island’s Chamorro people. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Micronesian island. In 2010, representative Hank Johnson asked whether an influx of troops would cause this American territory in the Marianas to tip over and capsize.
ANSWER: Guam [or Guåhan]
[10h] The most common name for Guam disease is a combination of these two Chamorro words, one referring to ALS-like symptoms, the other referring to the Parkinsons-like symptoms that present afterward. Name both.
ANSWER: lytico AND bodig [accept lytico-bodig disease]
[10m] Oliver Sacks also examined high rates of this condition caused by a hurricane-induced bottleneck on Pingelap atoll. Frithiof Holmgren developed a test for this condition after an 1875 railway crash in Lagerlunda.
ANSWER: total color blindness [or achromatopsia, maskun, color vision deficiency, CVD; accept red-green color blindness]
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