TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schwartz, Maxime
TI  - How the cows turned mad
SN  - 0520235312
U1  - 616.83 
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Prion diseases
KW  - Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
KW  - Animals--Diseases
KW  - Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
N1  - 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
ER  -