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The first symptoms begin after just a few sleepless nights, with shaking, sweating and overwhelming anxiety. They end only after months of agonising open-eyed deterioration when the victim finally falls into a coma-like state of exhaustion and then dies. Fatal Familial Insomnia is a rare, inherited disease that has afflicted one noble Venetian family for centuries, striking at random and passing from generation to generation like a deadly dynastic curse. The cause? A rogue protein called a prion, which is impossible to destroy and is also responsible for Mad Cow Disease and scrapie in sheep. In this ground-breaking work of scientific detection, D. T. Max pins down this most mutable and maddening of enemies and tells a story that is at once enlightening and spell-binding.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Science: general issues Popular science

• Full title: Family That Couldn't Sleep
• Author: D T Max
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• EAN: 9781846270901
• ISBN: 1846270901
• ID: 04277282
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Weight: 318 g
• Dimensions: 196 × 132 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. May 2008

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