Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Brittany Balsiger: Popular Books

Becker, Geoffrey. Mad Cow Disease (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy). New York: Nova
Science Publishers, 2008. Print

This book is about important facts that correlate with BSE. The book goes into how cows first get mad cow and then how it can be transferred to humans. It also goes over what BSE has done to economies and what has been done to try to prevent the spread of BSE to other cows and to humans.

Yam, Philip. The Pathological Protein. New York: Copernicus Books, 2003. Print

This book gets into how contracting BSE may be easier than one would think. It also goes into how hard it is to kill the prion that is BSE and how different mad cow is from other prions. It delves into how BSE developed into the threat it is today and what scientists know (or more accurately; don’t know) about BSE.

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