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Deadly feasts :tracking the secrets of a terrifying new plague

by Richard Rhodes

ISBN13: 9780684823607
ISBN10: 0684823608
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In a non-fiction narrative that reads like a medical thriller, Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France — and that has already been traced to food animals in the United States. A new Afterword assesses what needs to be done to prevent a fatal epidemic.

"An Upton Sinclair-ish look inside the modern meat industry....Rhodes tells this medical detective story beautifully". — John Schwartz, The Washington Post

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ISBN:
9780684823607
Subtitle:
The Prion Controversy and the Publics Health
Author:
Rhodes, Richard
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Location:
New York :
Subject:
Neurology
Subject:
Diseases
Subject:
Diseases - Contagious
Subject:
Prion diseases
Subject:
Creutzfeldt-jakob disease
Subject:
Prion diseases -- Popular works.
Series Volume:
1993/1
Publication Date:
19970320
Binding:
HC
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
256
Dimensions:
9.56x6.41x1.01 in. 1.16 lbs.
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