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How the cows turned mad

Author: Maxime Schwartz
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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A gripping biological detective story that traces the history of mad cow disease and related infectious brain disease of livestock and people. The book also illustrates dramatically how scientific progress unfolds as researchers in various countries pursue new ideas and leads in order to identify the cause of and relationship between these enigmatic diseases.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Maxime Schwartz
ISBN: 0520235312 9780520235311
OCLC Number: 50002480
Description: viii, 238 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Sheep are strangely dizzy --
Molecules and microbes --
Mad dogs and earthworms --
Scrapie under the microscope --
Creutzfeldt, Jakob, and others --
Scrapie is inoculable --
And goats, and mice --
Scrapie is contagious --
Kuru and the Fore people of Papua New Guinea --
Wall comes down --
From pearl necklace to double helix --
Phantom virus --
Tragedy in the making --
One case per million --
Prions --
April 1985 --
"Kiss of death" --
Return of the spontaneists --
To grow : and to die --
Lessons learned --
Have the cows gone mad? --
From cows to humans --
From cows to sheep? From humans to humans? --
Secret in the closet --Unmasking "the disease"? --
Have we conquered "the disease?" --
2001.
Other Titles: Comment les vaches sont devenues folles.
Responsibility: Maxime Schwartz ; translated by Edward Schneider.
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A gripping biological detective story that traces the history of mad cow disease and related infectious brain disease of livestock and people. The book also illustrates dramatically how scientific progress unfolds as researchers in various countries pursue new ideas and leads in order to identify the cause of and relationship between these enigmatic diseases.

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