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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by David Quammen
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Spillover Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic The next big and murderous human pandemic the one that kills us in millions will be caused by a new diseasenew to humans anyway The bug thats responsible will be strange unfamiliar but it wont come from outer space Odds are that the killer pathogenmost likely a viruswill spill over into humans from a nonhuman animal Spillover Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic Spillover Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic David Quammen on FREE shipping on qualifying offers A Booklist Top 10 Science Book of 2012 a 2012 New York Times Book Review Notable Book Spillover Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic Spillover Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic David Quammen on FREE shipping on qualifying offers Mr Quammen is not just among our best science writers but among our best writers period ―Dwight Garner Spillover Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic Spillover Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic He is collecting samples in Central Africa and Southeast Asia and elsewhere from people involved in bushmeat He is getting them to take blood samples of the bushmeat and he is getting blood samples from them too He is out there doing this joint diagnosis Spillover Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic After all there’s a reason he is has been given an Academy Award in Literature and is a threetime winner of the National Magazine Award Spillover Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic explores the science behind human pandemics and is a culmination of decadeslong interest in animals biology and travel Book review ‘Spillover Animal Infections and the Next Spillover Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen W W Norton As Quammen writes such zoonotic diseases are particularly confounding because they are so hard to eradicate Over the generations mankind has notched only a few victories over microbes The elimination of smallpox was one Spillover Animal Infection and the Next Human Pandemic Spillover Animal Infection and the Next Human Pandemic Regarding airborne transmission he says that pathogens can “waft into a nearby village as easily as the pleasant autumnal smell of smoke from a pile of leaves” Throughout the book the subjects of human and animal diseases are “ strands of one braided cord” The last chapter
