Libro Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic De David Quammen

portada Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

W W Norton & Co

Autor

David Quammen

Categoría

Medicina

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

587

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

0393066800

ISBN13

9780393066807

N° edición

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

David Quammen (Autor) · W W Norton & Co · Tapa Dura

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A Booklist Top 10 Science Book of 2012, a 2012 New York Times Book Review Notable Book, and a Daily Beast "Top 11 Book of 2012" A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases. 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 pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world. He recounts adventures in the field―netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congo―with the world’s leading disease scientists. In Spillover Quammen takes the reader along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?