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“[Mr. Quammen] is not just between our best science writers but among the our greatest writers, period.” ―Dwight Garner, New York Times
The up coming huge human pandemic―the subsequent illness cataclysm, probably on the scale of AIDS or the 1918 influenza―is most likely to be brought about by a new virus coming to human beings from wildlife. Gurus call these an function “spillover” and they alert us to brace ourselves. David Quammen has tracked this issue from the jungles of Central Africa, the rooftops of Bangladesh, and the caves of southern China to the laboratories exactly where researchers work in space suits to review lethal viruses. He illuminates the dynamics of Ebola, SARS, chicken flu, Lyme sickness, and other rising threats and tells the story of AIDS and its origins as it has by no means just before been explained to. Spillover reads like a thriller tale, comprehensive of mayhem and clues and issues. When the Future Large Just one comes, what will it search like? From which harmless host animal will it emerge? Will we be completely ready?
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