Deadly Feasts

The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health

By: Richard Rhodes

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Paperback | 22 May 1998

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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 US and worldwide developments of a burgeoning global threat.

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"Deadly Feasts is a book to be read and pondered carefully -- and perhaps acted on -- possibly before eating one's next hamburger."-Oliver Sacks, The New Yorker "In the science literature of Armageddon, Deadly Feasts is in a class by itself....Rhodes is able to make hard science come alive."-Peter Collier, Chicago Tribune "Deadly Feasts is a breezy, immensely readable account....It is a splendid description of the process by which scientific knowledge is advanced."-Claudia Winkler, The Weekly Standard "[Rhodes] is a wonderful storyteller, Deadly Feasts is a great mystery story."-Nancy Schapiro, St. Louis Post-Dispatch "An Upton Sinclair-ish look inside the modern meat industry...Rhodes tells this medical detective story beautifully."-John Schwartz, The Washington Post "Classic medical detective story."- George Johnson, The New York Times Book Review "A vivid and engrossing account of a scientific saga worthy of Paul de Kruff's Microbe-Hunters."-Beryl Lieff Benderly, San Jose Mercury News

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Non-Fiction Medicine Clinical & Internal Medicine Diseases & Disorders Infectious & Contagious Diseases Family & Health Popular Medicine & Health Coping with / Advice about Personal, Social & Health Topics Coping with / Advice about Illness & Specific Health Conditions Science Science in General

To the Reader
Among the Cannibals
I Eat You
Kuru
Dr. Creutzfeldt and Dr. Jakob
Across the Species Barrier
The Life and Death of Georgette
The Cannibal Connection
The Strangest Thing in All Biology
The Disease That Wouldn't Die
High-Tech Neocannibalism
Infecting the Children
A Candidate for a Modern Wonder
God in the Guise of a Virus
Meat Bites Back
Ice-Nine
It's Kuru and Nothing but Kuru
Afterword: We May Have to Face an Epidemic
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index
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Deadly Feasts

The "Prion" Controversy and the Public's Health

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