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Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague Paperback - 1998
by Richard Rhodes
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. Photos.
Summary
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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DARK NIGHT in the mountains and no drums beating.
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- Title Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague
- Author Richard Rhodes
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Touchstone E
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Simon & Schuster, Old Tappan, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1998-05-22
- ISBN 9780684844251 / 0684844257
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.36 x 5.5 x 0.63 in (21.23 x 13.97 x 1.60 cm)
- Reading level 1340
- Library of Congress subjects Prison diseases
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.8
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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."âÈ'Oliver Sacks, The New Yorker
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- New York Times, 05/17/1998, Page 48
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