Spillover: Emerging Diseases, Animal Hosts, and the Future of Human Health by David Quammen

Spillover: Emerging Diseases, Animal Hosts, and the Future of Human Health

David Quammen

587 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction science challenging informative slow-paced

Description

Ebola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless other deadly viruses all have one thing in common: the bugs that transmit these diseases all originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. In this gripping account, David Quamm...

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informative 98%
challenging 42%
reflective 31%
dark 15%
adventurous 14%
mysterious 10%
inspiring 7%
tense 7%
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