Spillover delivers the science, the history, the mystery, and the human anguish as page-turning drama.įrom what innocent creature, in what remote landscape, will the Next Big One emerge? A rodent in southern China? A monkey in West Africa? A bat in Malaysia that happens to roost above a pig farm, from which hogs are exported to Singapore? In this age of speedy travel between dense human populations, an emerging disease can go global in hours. He found surprises in the latest research, alarm among public health officials, and deep concern in the eyes of researchers. He interviewed survivors and gathered stories of the dead. For five years, Quammen shadowed scientists into the field-a rooftop in Bangladesh, a forest in the Congo, a Chinese rat farm, a suburban woodland in Duchess County, New York-and through their high-biosecurity laboratories. Here’s the description:ĭavid Quammen’s Spillover is a work of science reporting, history, and adventuresome travel, tracking this subject around the world. It details the fascinating and frightening world of diseases that spread to humans from other animals, also known as zoonoses. David Quammen, a giant of natural history writing, has a new book out today called Spillover.
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