
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
David Quammen
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.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Random House
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN-13
- 9781409019824
- Genre
- Science & Technology
- Topics
- Zoonotic diseasesPandemicsVirology and ecology
Awards
- Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionShortlistedMajor(2013)
- National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(2012)
Other awarded books from David Quammen
- Breathless: The Scientific Race To Defeat a Deadly Virus
- The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
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