Deadly Feasts Tracking the Secrets of a

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.

Richard Rhodes is the author of the Pulitzer Prize -- winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb and many other books. He lives in rural Connecticut.

CONTENTS

To the Reader

PART ONE: Among the Cannibals
1. I Eat You
2. Kuru
3. Dr. Creutzfeldt and Dr. Jakob
4. Across the Species Barrier
5. The Life and Death of Georgette
6. The Cannibal Connection

PART TWO: The Strangest Thing in All Biology
7. The Disease That Wouldn't Die
8. High-Tech Neocannibalism
9. Infecting the Children
10. A Candidate for a Modern Wonder

PART THREE: God in the Guise of a Virus
11. Meat Bites Back
12. Ice-Nine
13. It's Kuru and Nothing but Kuru

Afterword: We May Have to Face an Epidemic
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index

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Deadly Feasts Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague

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