Description: Spillover : Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen.... A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases, Spillover is “fascinating and terrifying … a real-life thriller with an outcome that affects us all” (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction).In 2020, the novel coronavirus gripped the world in a global pandemic and led to the death of hundreds of thousands. The source of the previously unknown virus? Bats. This phenomenon―in which a new pathogen comes to humans from wildlife―is known as spillover, and it may not be long before it happens again.Prior to the emergence of our latest health crisis, renowned science writer David Quammen was traveling the globe to better understand spillover’s devastating potential. For five years he followed scientists to a rooftop in Bangladesh, a forest in the Congo, a Chinese rat farm, and a suburban woodland in New York, and through high-biosecurity laboratories. He interviewed survivors and gathered stories of the dead. He found surprises in the latest research, alarm among public health officials, and deep concern in the eyes of researchers.
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Subject: Animation
Item Length: 8.2in
Item Height: 1in
Item Width: 5.7in
Author: David Quammen
Publication Name: Spillover : Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.2 Oz
Number of Pages: 592 Pages
