An edition of How the cows turned mad
(2003)
How the cows turned mad
by Maxime Schwartz
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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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Table of 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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