| Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague Contributor(s): Rhodes, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0684844257 ISBN-13: 9780684844251 Publisher: Simon & Schuster OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1998 Annotation: In a non-fiction narrative that reads like a medical thriller, 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. Photos. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Diseases - Contagious - Science | Life Sciences - Virology |
| Dewey: 616.8 |
| Lexile Measure: 1340 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.5" W x 8.36" (0.70 lbs) 272 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 17299 Reading Level: 11.0 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 12.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Rhodes, Richard: - Richard Rhodes is the author of numerous books and the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. He graduated from Yale University and has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Appearing as host and correspondent for documentaries on public television's Frontline and American Experience series, he has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT and is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Visit his website: RichardRhodes.com |