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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

David Quammen

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#1110 of 3,809 books · #86 in Science & Technology

Shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction (2013) and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (2012).

As globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient ecosystems, we encounter strange and dangerous infections that originate in animals but that can be transmitted to humans. Diseases that were contained are being set free and the results are potentially catastrophic. In a journey that takes him from southern China to the Congo, from Bangladesh to Australia, David Quammen tracks these infections to their source, and asks what we can do to prevent some new pandemic spreading across the face of the earth.

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Publisher
Random House
ISBN-13
9781409019824
Topics
Zoonotic diseasesPandemicsVirology and ecology

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