Deadly Feasts: The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health

by RichardRhodes (Author)

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  Illustrated
  1997

  $12.94

  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.

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  Hardcover
  1997

  $5.15

  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