Spillover
Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Recommended by Kaleigh Rogers, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #3 in Virus, Ranked #4 in Microbiology — see more rankings.
“Science writing as detective story at its best.” —Jennifer Ouellette, Scientific American
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Scientific American Best Book of the Year, and a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Ebola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless other deadly viruses all have one thing in common: the bugs that transmit these diseases all originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. In this gripping account, David Quammen takes the reader along on this astonishing... more
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Scientific American Best Book of the Year, and a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Ebola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless other deadly viruses all have one thing in common: the bugs that transmit these diseases all originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. In this gripping account, David Quammen takes the reader along on this astonishing... more
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Kaleigh Rogers @rachsyme Spillover is a fantastic book though. I'd also recommend Pandemic and/or The Fever by @soniashah (Source)
Rankings by Category
Spillover is ranked in the following categories:
- #21 in Biology
- #14 in Diseases
- #61 in Ecology
- #55 in Genetics
- #10 in Immunology
- #21 in Internal Medicine
- #67 in Life Sciences
- #46 in Medical
- #30 in Medicine
- #6 in Pandemic
- #19 in Pathology
- #12 in Public Health
- #19 in Viral
- #56 in Wildlife
- #25 in Zoology
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