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The suspenseful and brilliant Blindness (1995), his latest book published in English, tells the fantastic story of an epidemic that leaves the whole world unable to see.
The epidemic is the price of our permissive attitudes toward monogamy, chastity, and other forms of sexual conservatism.
Smallpox, while not found in the world's population at present, remains a potential health hazard especially due to the possibility of its use as a bioweapon [ 1 2 3 4 5 ] . There is currently no accepted treatment for smallpox, although a number of agents have been evaluated [ 6 ] . Therefore, new therapeutic or virucidal agents could have great utility in slowing both the progression and spread of the disease in an epidemic situation.
What resulted, as Peter Biskind shows in his New Hollywood dish bible Easy Riders, Raging Bulls , was an epidemic of megalomania, sexual libertinism, money-wasting, and drug abuse--as well as a few dozen classics of American cinema.
The alarming lead story in Sunday's Observer claimed that Britain's BSE (mad cow disease) epidemic "may have been caused by a scientific experiment that went wrong.