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Spillover - Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
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Spillover - Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 240
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In 2020, the novel coronavirus gripped the world in a global
pandemic and led to the death of hundreds of thousands. The source
of the previously unknown virus? Bats. This phenomenon-in which a
new pathogen comes to humans from wildlife-is known as spillover,
and it may not be long before it happens again. Prior to the
emergence of our latest health crisis, renowned science writer
David Quammen was traveling the globe to better understand
spillover's devastating potential. For five years he followed
scientists to a rooftop in Bangladesh, a forest in the Congo, a
Chinese rat farm, and a suburban woodland in New York, and through
high-biosecurity laboratories. He interviewed survivors and
gathered stories of the dead. He found surprises in the latest
research, alarm among public health officials, and deep concern in
the eyes of researchers. Spillover delivers the science, the
history, the mystery, and the human anguish of disease outbreaks as
gripping drama. And it asks questions more urgent now than ever
before: From what innocent creature, in what remote landscape, will
the Next Big One emerge? Are pandemics independent misfortunes, or
linked? Are they merely happening to us, or are we somehow causing
them? What can be done? Quammen traces the origins of Ebola,
Marburg, SARS, avian influenza, Lyme disease, and other bizarre
cases of spillover, including the grim, unexpected story of how
AIDS began from a single Cameroonian chimpanzee. The result is more
than a clarion work of reportage. It's also the elegantly told tale
of a quest, through time and landscape, for a new understanding of
how our world works-and how we can survive within it.
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