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More copies of this ISBN:Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Plague That Threatens Our Foodby Richard Rhodes
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. 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. In a new Afterword for the paperback, Rhodes reports the latest U.S. and worldwide developments of a burgeoning global threat. Review:Beryl Lieff Benderly San Jose Mercury News A vivid and engrossing account of a scientific saga worthy of Paul de Kruff's Microbe-Hunters. Review:Claudia Winkler The Weekly Standard Deadly Feasts is a breezy, immensely readable account....It is a splendid description of the process by which scientific knowledge is advanced. Review:John Schwartz The Washington Post An Upton Sinclair-ish look inside the modern meat industry...Rhodes tells this medical detective story beautifully. Review:Nancy Schapiro St. Louis Post-Dispatch [Rhodes] is a wonderful storyteller, Deadly Feasts is a great mystery story. Review:Peter Collier Chicago Tribune In the science literature of Armageddon, Deadly Feasts is in a class by itself....Rhodes is able to make hard science come alive. Review:Oliver Sacks The New Yorker Deadly Feasts is a book to be read and pondered carefully — and perhaps acted on — possibly before eating one's next hamburger. Synopsis:In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. 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. In a new Afterword for the paperback, Rhodes reports the latest U.S. and worldwide developments of a burgeoning global threat. About the AuthorRichard Rhodes is the author of the Pulitzer Prize — winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb and many other books. He lives in rural Connecticut. Table of ContentsCONTENTS To the Reader PART ONE: Among the Cannibals 1. I Eat You 2. Kuru 3. Dr. Creutzfeldt and Dr. Jakob 4. Across the Species Barrier 5. The Life and Death of Georgette 6. The Cannibal Connection PART TWO: The Strangest Thing in All Biology 7. The Disease That Wouldn't Die 8. High-Tech Neocannibalism 9. Infecting the Children 10. A Candidate for a Modern Wonder PART THREE: God in the Guise of a Virus 11. Meat Bites Back 12. Ice-Nine 13. It's Kuru and Nothing but Kuru Afterword: We May Have to Face an Epidemic Glossary Acknowledgments Index
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