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Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
W.W. Norton
October 2012
On Sale: October 2, 2012
592 pages
ISBN: 0393066800
EAN: 9780393066807
Kindle: B00856PC4K
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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 Australia—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 field—netting bats
in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas
in the Congo—with the world’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?
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