prion diseases

Examines the link between prions, ordinary proteins that go wrong, and a wide range of strange neurological illnesses that strike people and animals around the world, and explains how the rise in prion-linked illnesses can be attributed to human greed and ambition.

The Rand Scientific Expedition entered the lush forest around the Amazon and vanished. Years later, one of its members, a former soldier, emerges scarred, mutilated, and terrified. The expedition was headed by Nathan Rand's father and now Nathan is determined to follow the trail of his missing father and uncover what happened to the expedition.

Provides a comprehensive history of prion diseas, more commonly referred to as mad cow disease. Discusses the unique form of the disease and how it lacks any nucleic acid, details how the disease infects livestock and can then be passed onto humans, and describes how the disease is highly resistant to deactivation by chemical or physical additives.

Follows the explorations of scientists who research the fatal maladies known as prion diseases, tracking the origin of the stealthy plague to a cannibal feast in New Guinea in 1950 and discussing the risk posed to those who eat meat.

Follows the explorations of scientists who research the fatal maladies known as prion diseases, tracking the origin of the stealthy plague to a cannibal feast in New Guinea in 1950 and discussing the risk posed to those who eat meat.

Examines the link between prions, ordinary proteins that go wrong, and a wide range of strange neurological illnesses that strike people and animals around the world, and explains how the rise in prion-linked illnesses can be attributed to human greed and ambition.

This book discusses dementia, a group of symptoms rather than one disease, presenting information on Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body dementia, vascular dementia, prion diseases, frontotemporal dementia, and certain kinds of dementia which are unique to children and describes treatments for dementia.

Provides information about the causes of mad cow disease, a fatal illness that affects the brain and central nervous system of cattle; explains how the infection is transmitted to humans, emphasizing the rarity of the disease in people; and looks at what is being done to protect the public.

When the lone survivor of a scientific expedition into the Amazon stumbles out of the jungle to die mysteriously in a small village--a man who had only one arm when he went in but two when he came out--the government asks Nathan Rand, the son of the expedition's leader, to try and retrace his father's footsteps and discover what happened.

Traces the history of Mad Cow Disease, discussing how it originated, why people fear it, how it is transmitted, and what affects it has had on agriculture.