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 -- and that has already been traced to food animals in the United States. A new Afterword assesses what needs to be done to prevent a fatal epidemic."An Upton Sinclair-ish look inside the modern meat industry....Rhodes tells this medical detective story beautifully". -- John Schwartz, The Washington Post
- ISBN10 0684823608
- ISBN13 9780684823607
- Publish Date 5 May 1997 (first published 1 March 1997)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 October 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 259
- Language English