After a decade of denial, the British government stunned the world in 1996 by admitting that the deadly dementia affecting its beef and dairy herds was "the most likely cause" of a new, equally deadly human disease which may have already infected millions of people. "Mad Cow USA" looks at the scientists and science behind a rare and capricious class of diseases that have baffled researchers for centuries, and tells--despite U.S. government reassurances--how "mad cow" disease could happen here.
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After a decade of denial, the British government stunned the world in 1996 by admitting that the deadly dementia affecting its beef and dairy herds was "the most likely cause" of a new, equally deadly human disease which may have already infected millions of people. "Mad Cow USA" looks at the scientists and science behind a rare and capricious class of diseases that have baffled researchers for centuries, and tells--despite U.S. government reassurances--how "mad cow" disease could happen here.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 246 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 97022500 Type of material Book Personal name Rampton, Sheldon, 1957-Main title Mad cow U.S.A. : could the nightmare happen here? / Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber. Edition 1st. ed. Published/Created Monroe, Me: Common Courage Press, c1997. Description 246 p. : ill.; 24 cm. ISBN 1567511112 (cloth) LC classification RA644. C74 R35 1997 Variant title Mad cow USA Related names Stauber, John C. (John Clyde), 1953-LC Subjects Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease--United States. Bovine spongiform encephalopathy--United States. Beef industry--United States. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-238) and index. Dewey class no. 616.8/3 Geographic area code n-us---
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