The Family That Couldnt Sleep: A Medical Mystery Max D. T.Paperback
The Family That Couldnt Sleep: A Medical Mystery Max D. T.Paperback For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age,…
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The Family That Couldnt Sleep: A Medical Mystery Max D. T.Paperback
For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their lives in a matter of months. Across Europe, millions of sheep rub their fleeces raw before collapsing. In Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated by a sickness whose chief symptom is uncontrollable laughter.
Prions are ordinary proteins that sometimes go wrong, resulting in neurological illnesses that are always fatal. In England, cows attack their owners in the milking parlors, while in the American West, thousands of deer starve to death in fields full of grass.What these strange conditions-including fatal familial insomnia, kuru, scrapie, and mad cow disease-share is their cause: prions. Even more mysterious and frightening, prions are almost impossible to destroy
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