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By Richard Rhodes. 259 pp. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1997. $24. ISBN 0-684-82360-8.

In the wake of an epidemic of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or "mad cow disease," in Great Britain that afflicted nearly a million head of cattle, and the recent emergence there and in France of a new variant of Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease that resembles bovine spongiform encephalopathy biochemically and appears to have been contracted from eating contaminated beef, public interest in the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, a class of fatal neurodegenerative diseases of humans and animals, is understandably high. After reading several laudatory reviews of Deadly Feasts in the lay press, I approached the book with a mixture of curiosity and skepticism, wondering . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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