Hagahai
The Hagahai are a hunter-gatherer people of around 300 people in the highlands of Papua New Guinea in the province of Madang , in the west of the Schrader Mountains .
The Hagahai consist of five spatially separated groups that speak the same language and see themselves as a tribal unit. They also do shifting cultivation . Their appearance is described as rather small, dark-skinned and curly-haired.
They became famous in the Western world after cells obtained from their blood for the development of a vaccine against certain forms of leukemia were applied for by the American Department of Health for US patent number 5397696.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b R.S. Desowitz, C. Jenkins, G. Anian in Bulletin of World Health Organization : Bancroftian filariasis in an isolated hunter-gatherer shifting horticulturist group in Papua New Guinea (PDF file, English, 1993; 548 kB)
- ↑ WIPO Magazine : The Cases of Moore and the Hagahai People (English, September 2006)
- ↑ Focus : Researchers and companies claim living beings as "intellectual property" (December 4, 1995)