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4: SCRAPIE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
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Maxime Schwartz
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- FOREWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION ix
- PROLOGUE 1
- 1: THE SHEEP ARE STRANGELY DIZZY 4
- 2: MOLECULES AND MICROBES 13
- 3: MAO DOGS AND EARTHWORMS 18
- 4: SCRAPIE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE 24
- 5: CREUTZFELOT, JAKOB, AND OTHERS 31
- 6: SCRAPIE IS INOCULABLE 38
- 7: AND GOATS, AND MICE 45
- 8: SCRAPIE IS CONTAGIOUS 51
- 9: KURU AND THE FORE PEOPLE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA 58
- 10: THE WALL COMES DOWN 67
- 11: FROM PEARL NECKLACE TO DOUBLE HELIX 73
- 12: THE PHANTOM VIRUS 81
- 13: A TRAGEDY I N THE MAKING 87
- 14: ONE CASE PER MILLION 93
- 15: PRIONS 98
- 16: APRIL 1985 104
- 17: THE "KISS OF DEATH" 110
- 18: THE RETURN OF THE SPONTANEISTS 119
- 19: TO GROW-AND TO DIE 128
- 20: LESSONS LEARNED 136
- 21: HAVE THE COWS GONE MAD? 142
- 22: FROM COWS TO HUMANS 153
- 23: FROM COWS TO SHEEP? FROM HUMANS TO HUMANS? 163
- 24: THE SECRET IN THE CLOSET 169
- 25: UNMASKING "THE DISEASE" 176
- 26: HAVE WE CONllUERED "THE DISEASE"? 180
- 27: 2001 184
- EPILOGUE 199
- NOTES 205
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 215
- CHRONOLOGY 217
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 225
- INDEX 227
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- FOREWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION ix
- PROLOGUE 1
- 1: THE SHEEP ARE STRANGELY DIZZY 4
- 2: MOLECULES AND MICROBES 13
- 3: MAO DOGS AND EARTHWORMS 18
- 4: SCRAPIE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE 24
- 5: CREUTZFELOT, JAKOB, AND OTHERS 31
- 6: SCRAPIE IS INOCULABLE 38
- 7: AND GOATS, AND MICE 45
- 8: SCRAPIE IS CONTAGIOUS 51
- 9: KURU AND THE FORE PEOPLE OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA 58
- 10: THE WALL COMES DOWN 67
- 11: FROM PEARL NECKLACE TO DOUBLE HELIX 73
- 12: THE PHANTOM VIRUS 81
- 13: A TRAGEDY I N THE MAKING 87
- 14: ONE CASE PER MILLION 93
- 15: PRIONS 98
- 16: APRIL 1985 104
- 17: THE "KISS OF DEATH" 110
- 18: THE RETURN OF THE SPONTANEISTS 119
- 19: TO GROW-AND TO DIE 128
- 20: LESSONS LEARNED 136
- 21: HAVE THE COWS GONE MAD? 142
- 22: FROM COWS TO HUMANS 153
- 23: FROM COWS TO SHEEP? FROM HUMANS TO HUMANS? 163
- 24: THE SECRET IN THE CLOSET 169
- 25: UNMASKING "THE DISEASE" 176
- 26: HAVE WE CONllUERED "THE DISEASE"? 180
- 27: 2001 184
- EPILOGUE 199
- NOTES 205
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 215
- CHRONOLOGY 217
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 225
- INDEX 227