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Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Simon Schuster

Release: May 22, 1998

ISBN: 0684844257

ISBN 13: 9780684844251

Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague

4/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 272

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Simon Schuster

Release: May 22, 1998

ISBN: 0684844257

ISBN 13: 9780684844251

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