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If you thought "mad cow disease" and the political shenanigans that surrounded it were funny, think again. It's only one of a deadly and incurable group of human and animal diseases, transmittable spongiform encephalopathies (T.S.E.), and not just limited to the U.K. and Europe. In "Deadly Feasts," which Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes has subtitled "Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague," he does exactly that in a chillingly accurate chronicle that reads like a detective story.
From the work on a mysterious neurological disease in New Guinea by a brilliant American physician in the 1950s to current concern about the increasing incidence of T.S.E. in people and in animals throughout the world, Rhodes synthesizes the medical data, the interpersonal rivalries, the scientific revelations.
"Deadly Feasts" should bring this potential plague to everyone's attention. Rhodes reads with the calm, even tone that makes his writing so riveting.
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