How the cows turned mad
By: Maxime Schwartz ; translated by Edward Schneider
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780520235311
Subjects: History; Prion diseases; Maladies à prions; Histoire; Scrapie; Prionkrankheit; Spongiforme encefalopathieën; BSE; Prion Diseases; Ziekte van Creutzfeldt-Jakob
Work titles: Comment les vaches sont devenues folles
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sheep are strangely dizzy; title: Molecules and microbes; title: Mad dogs and earthworms; title: Scrapie under the microscope; title: Creutzfeldt, Jakob, and others; title: Scrapie is inoculable; title: And goats, and mice; title: Scrapie is contagious; title: Kuru and the Fore people of Papua New Guinea; title: Wall comes down; title: From pearl necklace to double helix; title: Phantom virus; title: Tragedy in the making; title: One case per million; title: Prions; title: April 1985; title: "Kiss of death"; title: Return of the spontaneists; title: To grow : and to die; title: Lessons learned; title: Have the cows gone mad?; title: From cows to humans; title: From cows to sheep? From humans to humans?; title: Secret in the closet; title: Unmasking "the disease"?; title: Have we conquered "the disease?"; title: 2001.