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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

by David Quammen
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"Science writing as detective story at its best." --Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American A New York TimesNotable Book of the Year, a Scientific AmericanBest Book of the Year, and a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Ebola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless other deadly viruses all have one thing in common: the bugs that transmit these diseases all originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. In this gripping account, David Quammen takes the reader along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge and asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?

Book Details

ISBN13 9780393346619
ISBN10 0393346617
Series/Work OL19167303W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher W. W. Norton Company
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

44.75 infectious diseases, parasitic diseases 46.00 veterinary medicine: general Animals Animals as carriers of disease communicable diseases Communicable diseases -- Forecasting Communicable diseases in animals Disease Diseases Emerging Communicable Diseases Epidemics Epidemics -- Forecasting Etiology Forecasting New York Times reviewed Nonfiction Pandemics Pandemie Popular Works Science

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