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How the cows turned mad : unlocking the mysteries of mad cow disease / Maxime Schwartz ; translated by Edward Schneider ; with a new foreword by Marion Nestle.

Schwartz, Maxime, 1940- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0520243374 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780520243378 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: xviii, 238 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2004.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-216) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The 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 -- The Wall comes down -- From pearl necklace to double helix -- The Phantom virus -- A Tragedy in the making -- One case per million -- Prions -- April 1985 -- The "Kiss of death" -- The 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? -- The Secret closet -- Unmasking "The disease" -- Have we conquered "The disease"? -- 2001 -- Epilogue.