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    Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague
    Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague
    Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague
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    Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague

    Written by Richard Rhodes

    Narrated by Richard Rhodes

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    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 US and worldwide developments of a burgeoning global threat.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateMar 1, 1997
    ISBN9780743546089
    Author

    Richard Rhodes

    Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public television’s Frontline and American Experience series, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his website RichardRhodes.com.

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    • 5/5
      A fast-paced tale of the discovery of fatal prion diseases, beginning with the 1950s-1960s outbreak of kuru in New Guinea, transmitted through cannibalism; Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease, which occurs throughout the world; scrapie in sheep; and finally, Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) in England, beginning in1985, or as Richard Rhodes puts it, "Meat Bites Back."
    • 5/5
      We expect our governments to protect our welfare rather than just protecting their financial bottom line. Frightening to think spongiform encephalopathy May be an epidemic already sewn into our midst. Excellent, easily understood and important book. I wonder why he didn’t talk about protein powders that so many fitness freaks ingest...
    • 5/5
      Clear, concise and lucid. Really wish it was longer but everything was explained well. Scary indeed !
    • 4/5
      This is a fabulous, eye-opening book on the history, progression and modern uncertainty surrounding the TSEs (transmissible spongiform encephalopathies), which are most commonly recognized as "mad cow disease". The reader will not get bogged down in extreme medical or scientific terminology. Nor will they be subjected to extreme alarmist theory or a plea for everyone to turn vegan. A history of the controversial agent across and within species is a wonderful introduction to this potential crisis. This book highlights yet another humbling part of nature. One that seems to be continually with us, all around us and has the potential to be dominating and unrelenting.
    • 4/5
      Deadly Feasts opens up with an absolutely riveting account of the kuru disease devastating the cannibal Fore in New Guinea. Turns out kuru is a prion based Spongiform Encephalopathy (SE) disease spread by cannibalism.Author then proceeds to methodically show how kuru is functionally the same thing as Mad Cow, and SE diseases found in sheep, mink, pigs etc. And the spread is functionally the same: cannibalism. The meat industry in an effort to save costs feeds vegetarian animals ground up meat/brain materials from slaughtered animals not fit to sell to humans.And the scary thing with these SE ‘s is they can bridge species boundaries very easily. Furthermore, even scarier is vegetarians could be at risk if an animal infected with a prion disease defecates on vegetables or fruits.Author points out there really are only two solutions to this problem: stop eating meat or wipe out the existing herds and stop feeding vegetarian animals downed animals in order to save money.Although it opens with a bang, the book does bog down in many places but is well worth a read. Author is clearly a lefty and throws in one gratuitous and completely unnecessary shot at the Newt Congress in the 90’s. But this can be overlooked given the overall excellent content of the book. Well worth the read (especially if you are still eating meat).
    • 4/5
      A bit on the alarmist side, but a good read with lots of great information on the inner workings of big-time science and the discovery of an all-new type of communicable disease.