Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague

ISBN-10: 0684819864
ISBN-13: 9780684819860
Category: Creutzfeld-Jakob syndrome
Pages: 278
Language: English
Published: 1997
Author: Richard Rhodes

Description

Beginning at the scene of a cannibal feast in New Guinea that spread a fatal illness to all who participated, this book follows the trail of a group of related human and animal diseases spreading around the world. Collectively they have come to be called prion diseases, the best-known being mad-cow disease, and already it is believed by some in Britain and elsewhere in Europe that there is danger in eating beef, and possibly also lamb, venison, pork and chicken.