This work 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 emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia; but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single…
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Editions
11 editions · 6 languages
Ebook · English · 2013
W. W. Norton & Company · 592 pages · 9780393239225
Paperback · English · 2013
Norton Trade Titles · 592 pages · 9780393346619
Other · English · 2014
Brilliance Audio · 9781491545089
Other · English · 2013
Penguin Random House · 592 pages · 9780099522850
Other · English · 2012
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
W. W. Norton & Company · 592 pages · 9780393066807
Other · English · 2012
The Bodley Head · 587 pages · 9781847920102
Animals as carriers of diseaseZoonosesEpidemicsNew York Times reviewedCommunicable diseases in animalsEpidemics -- ForecastingCommunicable diseases -- ForecastingWorld health -- Forecasting
