false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166761877m/16886.jpg 16886 7 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. <I>Deadly Feasts</i> 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. <i>Deadly Feasts</i> is packed with historical, anthropological, and epidemiological detail, and is graphic and occasionally even alarming in its speculations. 18529 1997 Deadly Feasts: Tracking The Secrets Of A Terrifying New Plague total:159|5:44|4:58|3:49|2:8|1:0| 159 615 207 19 4 1 false false Thu Jul 31 06:28:39 -0700 2008 Fri Jan 16 05:50:34 -0800 2009
This was at times a grisly read, what can you expect in a book about prions infecting the brain and the investigations that surrounded the strange illness. I felt that the author didn't need quite so...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Thu Oct 22 08:25:31 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 22 08:25:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 06 23:17:01 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 23:18:55 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Feb 02 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 23:59:56 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 02 09:20:17 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 13 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 06:54:22 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 15 07:02:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 10:25:18 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 10:26:14 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jul 24 12:11:56 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 05:44:29 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 24 12:11:56 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Feb 01 04:51:29 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 04:52:48 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 14:06:50 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 12 08:31:50 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Sat May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 07:05:03 -0700 2008 Mon May 12 07:07:49 -0700 2008
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