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How the cows turned mad/ Maxime Schwartz

By: Schwartz, MaximeMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003Description: xviii, 238 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 0520235312Subject(s): Prion diseases | Bovine spongiform encephalopathy | Animals--Diseases | Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseaseDDC classification: 616.83

Contents:

The Sheep are strangely dizzy -- Molecules and microbes -- Mad dogs and earthworms -- Scrapie under the microscope -- Creutzfeldt, Jakob, and others -- Scrapie is inoculable -- And goats, and mice -- Scrapie is contagious -- Kuru and the Fore people of Papua New Guinea -- The Wall comes down -- From pearl necklace to double helix -- The Phantom virus -- A Tragedy in the making -- One case per million -- Prions -- April 1985 -- The "Kiss of death" -- The Return of the spontaneists -- To grow-and to die -- Lessons learned -- Have the cows gone mad? -- From cows to humans -- From cows to sheep? From humans to humans? -- The Secret closet -- Unmasking "The disease" -- Have we conquered "The disease"? -- 2001 -- Epilogue.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	616.83 SCH/H (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P02340

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The Sheep are strangely dizzy --
Molecules and microbes --
Mad dogs and earthworms --
Scrapie under the microscope --
Creutzfeldt, Jakob, and others --
Scrapie is inoculable --
And goats, and mice --
Scrapie is contagious --
Kuru and the Fore people of Papua New Guinea --
The Wall comes down --
From pearl necklace to double helix --
The Phantom virus --
A Tragedy in the making --
One case per million --
Prions --
April 1985 --
The "Kiss of death" --
The Return of the spontaneists --
To grow-and to die --
Lessons learned --
Have the cows gone mad? --
From cows to humans --
From cows to sheep? From humans to humans? --
The Secret closet --
Unmasking "The disease" --
Have we conquered "The disease"? --
2001 --
Epilogue.

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