Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

A Booklist Top 10 Science Book of 2012, a 2012 New York Times Book Review Notable Book, and a Daily Beast "Top 11 Book of 2012"

A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.
The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australiaâ€•but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world. He recounts adventures in the fieldâ€•netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congoâ€•with the worldâ€™s leading disease scientists. In Spillover Quammen takes the reader along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?
Country USA
Brand W W Norton Company
Manufacturer W. W. Norton & Company
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780393066807
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EANs 9780393066807
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	W W Norton Company
Manufacturer	W. W. Norton & Company
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780393066807
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780393066807
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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