ISBN10: 081297252X, ISBN13: 9780812972528, [publisher: Random House USA Inc, New York] Softcover 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. In Papua New Guinea, a primitive tribe is nearly obliterated by a sickness whose chief symptom is uncontrollable laughter. Across Europe, millions of sheep rub their fleeces raw before collapsing. 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 conditionsincluding fatal familial insomnia, kuru, scrapie, and mad cow diseaseshare is their cause: prions. Prions are ordinary proteins that sometimes go wrong, resulting in neurological illnesses that are always fatal. Even more mysterious and frightening, prions are almost impossible to destroy because they are not alive and have no DNAand the diseases they bring are now spreading around the world.In The Family That Couldnt Sleep, essayist and journalist D. T. Max tells the spellbinding story of the prions hidden past and deadly future. Through exclusive interviews and original archival research, Max explains this storys connection to human greed and ambitionfrom the Prussian chemist Justus von Liebig, who made cattle meatier by feeding them the flesh of other cows, to New ...
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