Spillover Quammen David
Spillover Quammen David First, a horse in Brisbane falls ill: fever, swelling, bloody froth. The foreman at the stables becomes ill and the trainer dies. Then thirteen others drop dead. As…
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Spillover Quammen David
First, a horse in Brisbane falls ill: fever, swelling, bloody froth. The foreman at the stables becomes ill and the trainer dies. Then thirteen others drop dead.
As globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient ecosystems, we encounter strange and dangerous infections that originate in animals but that can be transmitted to humans. What is going on? Diseases that were contained are being set free and the results are potentially catastrophic.
In a journey that takes him from southern China to the Congo, from Bangladesh to Australia, David Quammen tracks these infections to their source and asks what we can do to prevent some new pandemic spreading across the face of the earth.