Title:
Spillover : animal infections and the next human pandemic
Author:
Edition:
Norton paperback edition.
Publication Date:
2013
2012
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton, 2013.
©2012
Physical Description:
587 pages : maps ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9780393346619
Abstract:
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.
Language:
English
