Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague - Hardcover

Rhodes, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684823608 ISBN 13: 9780684823607

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1997

Synopsis

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb traces the spread of several new animal-related diseases, including "mad cow disease" and others that have spread throughout Europe and may soon emerge in the United States. 100,000 first printing. Tour.

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Review:

The British epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" disease, is only one in a series of mysterious and often fatal afflictions that have baffled scientists for more than 40 years. Deadly Feasts is a compelling account of decades of research into a family of diseases ranging from kuru in primitive human tribes to scrapie in sheep. Richard Rhodes traces the attempts of scientists to understand these strange diseases, which are now known to be transmitted by ingesting the brain or nervous tissue of infected creatures, even though the pathogen itself is an enigma that seems to be neither bacterial nor viral. Deadly Feasts is packed with historical, anthropological, and epidemiological detail, and is graphic and occasionally even alarming in its speculations.

About the Author:

Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public television’s Frontline and American Experience series, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his website: RichardRhodes.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0684823608
• ISBN 13: 9780684823607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256