How the Cows Turned Mad (Magill’s Literary Annual 2004)
At a glance:
- Author: Maxime Schwartz
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Science and medicine
- Time of Work: From the eighteenth century to 2003
- Principal Characters: Carleton D. Gajdusek, Louis Pasteur, Stanley Prusiner, Vincent Zigas
- Genres: Nonfiction, Health and medicine, Science and technology, Translation
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Cattle, France or French people, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Science or scientists, Twenty-first century, Doctors, England or English people, Eighteenth century, Medicine, Diseases, Animals, Great Britain, Cannibalism, Meat, Livestock, Veterinarians, Life sciences
Shock waves rocked Europe during the late 1980’s and the 1990’s as a result of “mad cow” disease. In Britain and France in particular, there was widespread concern when people were informed that the disease could be passed to humans through consumption of contaminated beef. On December 23, 2003, U.S. government sources revealed that a dairy cow in Washington state was infected with mad cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy. The American publication of Maxime Schwartz’s How the Cows Turned Mad is therefore very timely.
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