Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Death in Devizes -- One in a million -- Cannibals' laughing death -- Connecting the holes -- Birth of the prion -- Family curses -- On the prion proving grounds -- Consuming fears -- Mad cow's human toll -- Keeping the madness out -- Scourge of the cervids -- Misadventures in medicine -- Searching for cures -- Laying odds.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-256) and index.
