Name: Deadly Feasts
ISBN: 9780684823607

Richard Rhodes

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

Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague

Deadly Feasts

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.

Deadly Feasts Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague

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