Deadly feasts : the "Prion" controversy and the public's health / Richard Rhodes.
By: Rhodes, Richard.
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BookPublisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1998Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.Description: 278 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 0684844257 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Prion diseases | Prion Diseases -- popular works | Brain diseases
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This is an account of how scientists have tracked the emergence of a new group of fatat brain diseases-(TSEs)-that affect humans and animals (mad cow disease)...These diseases are spread via 'industrial cannibalism' (e.g., infected animal remains fed to animals, humans eating contaminted meat).
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Includes index.
This is an account of how scientists have tracked the emergence of a new group of fatat brain diseases-(TSEs)-that affect humans and animals (mad cow disease)...These diseases are spread via 'industrial cannibalism' (e.g., infected animal remains fed to animals, humans eating contaminted meat).
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