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Editorial Reviews
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The British epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" disease, is only one in a series of mysterious and often fatal afflictions that have baffled scientists for more than 40 years. Deadly Feasts is a compelling account of decades of research into a family of diseases ranging from kuru in primitive human tribes to scrapie in sheep. Richard Rhodes traces the attempts of scientists to understand these strange diseases, which are now known to be transmitted by ingesting the brain or nervous tissue of infected creatures, even though the pathogen itself is an enigma that seems to be neither bacterial nor viral. Deadly Feasts is packed with historical, anthropological, and epidemiological detail, and is graphic and occasionally even alarming in its speculations. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Readers expecting the next The Hot Zone (LJ 8/94) may be disappointed in Rhodes's (Dark Sun, LJ 8/95) latest work. While it contains similar sensationalist elements (there's a gruesome account of a cannibal feast in New Guinea), the narrative lacks the hyperactive, dramatic pacing that made Richard Preston's title a best seller. Instead, Deadly Feasts is a sobering, straightforward if somewhat overly detailed acount of how scientists have tracked the emergence of a new group of fatal brain diseases?transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs)?that affect humans (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) and animals (mad cow disease). Noting that these diseases are spread via "industrial cannibalism" (e.g., infected animal remains fed to animals, humans eating contaminated meat), Rhodes warns that, unless the government takes action, we could face a new "Black Death" deadlier than Ebola. Plenty of food for thought here. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/15/97; the publication date was changed from June to coincide with the FDA's considering a proposed ban on feeding processed ruminant animal
The British epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow" disease, is only one in a series of mysterious and often fatal afflictions that have baffled scientists for more than 40 years. Deadly Feasts is a compelling account of decades of research into a family of diseases ranging from kuru in primitive human tribes to scrapie in sheep. Richard Rhodes traces the attempts of scientists to understand these strange diseases, which are now known to be transmitted by ingesting the brain or nervous tissue of infected creatures, even though the pathogen itself is an enigma that seems to be neither bacterial nor viral. Deadly Feasts is packed with historical, anthropological, and epidemiological detail, and is graphic and occasionally even alarming in its speculations. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Readers expecting the next The Hot Zone (LJ 8/94) may be disappointed in Rhodes's (Dark Sun, LJ 8/95) latest work. While it contains similar sensationalist elements (there's a gruesome account of a cannibal feast in New Guinea), the narrative lacks the hyperactive, dramatic pacing that made Richard Preston's title a best seller. Instead, Deadly Feasts is a sobering, straightforward if somewhat overly detailed acount of how scientists have tracked the emergence of a new group of fatal brain diseases?transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs)?that affect humans (Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) and animals (mad cow disease). Noting that these diseases are spread via "industrial cannibalism" (e.g., infected animal remains fed to animals, humans eating contaminated meat), Rhodes warns that, unless the government takes action, we could face a new "Black Death" deadlier than Ebola. Plenty of food for thought here. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 2/15/97; the publication date was changed from June to coincide with the FDA's considering a proposed ban on feeding processed ruminant animal