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Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague

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3H 9min
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English
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Non-Fiction

In this brilliant and gripping medical detective story. Richard Rhodes follows virus hunters on three continents as they track the emergence of a deadly new brain disease that first kills cannibals in New Guinea, then cattle and young people in Britain and France—and that has already been traced to food animals in the United States. In a new afterword for the paperback, Rhodes reports the latest US and worldwide developments of a burgeoning global threat.

© 1997 Simon & Schuster Audio (Audiobook): 9780743546089

Release date

Audiobook: 1 March 1997

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