Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague
Richard Rhodes
Mar 1997 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Richard Rhodes
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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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K.R. Gardner
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September 9, 2024
Great, quick read. This was shorter than I expected but a great and interesting read. Really hits home how scary prions are. I didn't realize how long it's been since it was published, I would love any updates or new additions regarding any improvements in the research of prion diseases. I loved the ending a lot, made me go check the garden fertilizer I have for animal product
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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.
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