Fatal Feast - E-book - ePub

A prion pandemic threatens the world as brilliant young researcher Dr. Callie Archer vows to find a cure for the aggressive variant of mad cow disease that killed her father. Like unstoppable super-bugs, the deadly prion proteins infect livestock and wild game, threatening world food supplies. Unknowing humans who eat infected meat become paranoid, violent and die horrible deaths. Federal authorities isolate Dr.
Archer's primate research project at an NIH high-risk laboratory in the mountains of Montana for protection from radical animal rights activists. While she risks her life to stop the catastrophic disease that could prove fatal to millions, a sexist director, sabotaging cohort, and a handsome rancher obstruct her progress. Dr. Archer closes in on a cure, but murderous activists penetrate her lab, steal infected animals, and nearly kill her.
As the disease spreads in ranching and hunting country, authorities suppress public information to save the country from economic disaster.