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Spillover : animal infections and the next human pandemic

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  • Author: Quammen, David
    Date:
    Created
    2013
    Summary:

    Examines the emergence and causes of new diseases all over the world, describing a process called "spillover" where illness originates in wild animals before being passed to humans and discusses the potential for the next huge pandemic. The author illuminates the dynamics of Ebola, SARS, bird flu, Lyme disease, and other emerging threats and tells the story of AIDS and its origins as it has never before been told..

    Contents:
    • Pale horse
    • Thirteen gorillas
    • Everything comes from somewhere
    • Dinner at the rat farm
    • The deer, the parrot, and the kid next door
    • Going viral
    • Celestial hosts
    • The chimp and the river
    • It depends.
    Genre:
    Math and science
    Subject(s): Animals as carriers of disease | Communicable diseases in animals | Epidemics | Forecasting | Science | World health | Zoonoses
    Original Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9780393239225, 0393239225, 9781409019824, 1409019829