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full color illustrated hardbound 8vo. 8º with transparent plastic dustwrapper. very fine cond. mint cond. looks brand new. as new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of all markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking , underlining, remainder markings etc ~first edition. first printing ( # 1 in # line). 259p. b&w photo illustrations. b&w diagrams. acknowledgments. glossary. index. biology. pharamocology medicine. epidemiology. kukukuku. kuru. BSE. mad cow disease. CJD (Creutzfeldt~Jakob disease).scrapie. FDA. NIH. cannibalism. ~ It lurks in the meat we eat. Undetectable, it incu bates for years. It kills by eating holes in people's brains, so that they stagger and collapse and lose their minds. It's one hundred percent fatal. And it's already abroad in America. Deadly Feasts reads like a Michael Crichton thriller~but it's documented fact, bringing sober early warning of a new threat to our very lives that everyone of us needs to heed. In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story, Pulitzer Prize~winning author Richard Rhodes follows the daring explorations of maverick scientists as they track the emergence of the deadly "stealth" maladies known as prion diseases ~ strange new disease agents unlike any others known on earth. Mad cow disease is one. Besides hundreds of thousands of cattle, young people in Britain and France have already died from it~died from eating beef. Beginning with a cannibal feast in New Guinea only a few decades ago that killed everyone who partook, Rhodes shows this mysterious group of human and animal diseases spreading gradually throughout the World, infecting and killing laboratory animals; patients in surgery; herds of sheep, cattle, mink, deer and elk; children treated with human growth hormone; and now, ominously, healthy young people in Britain and on the Continent. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announcement in early 1997 of drastic measures to prevent an outbreak of mad cow disease in the United States confirmed what Rhodes reveals and explores in detail: that Americans who eat meat are almost certainly already at risk. More than beef may be dangerous. The scientists whose rain forest odysseys and breakthrough discoveries Rhodes recounts~a Nobel laureate prominent among them~question the safety not only of meat. Milk and cheese may be infected, as well as soap, surgical sutures, gelatin and even leather goods. Breathing common garden bonemeal may be deadly (it has already been banned in Britain). Rhodes weighs the risks as well of the burgeoning new technology of animal~to~human transplantation, in light of projections that as many as fifty thousand heart transplants from pigs to humans are expected to take place annually by early in the twenty~first century, with kidney, lung and other tissue transplants to follow. Deadly Feasts raises the terrifying specter of an ineradicable, untreatable, irreversibly fatal disease whose insidious spread may be unstoppable unless we act now. The book is certain to ignite a national debate about food safety and the risks of new technologies that cross the species barrier. It will make your heart pound. It may save your life.
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