Location: | Pingelap, Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia |
Subject: | Disease |
Length: | 19 minutes |
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Hue: | color |
Year Released: | 2008 |
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Director: | Juliette Lambot |
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Description: | Achromatopsia is a genetic illness. It affects one in ten people on the island of Pingelap in Micronesia, while in the rest of the world it is one in thirty thousandÉA mystery explained by a legend, one about a typhoon which in the 18th century, devastated everything in its path. |
Record No: | 3597 |
Resources: | Distributors's List |
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