Deadly Feasts: Tracking The Secrets Of A Terrifyin
- ISBN-10
- 1471104575
- ISBN-13
- 9781471104572
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-12-11
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Richard Rhodes
Description
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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