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Author Quammen, David, 1948-

Title Spillover : animal infections and the next human pandemic / David Quammen.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton & Co., [2012]
©2012
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1534938~S1
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 95th Street Adult Nonfiction  614.43 QUA    AVAILABLE
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Description 587 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Pale horse -- Thirteen gorillas -- Everything comes from somewhere -- Dinner at the rat farm -- The deer, the parrot, and the kid next door -- Going viral -- Celestial hosts -- It depends.
Summary Examines the emergence and causes of new diseases all over the world, describing a process called spillover where illness originates in wild animals before being passed to humans and discusses the potential for the next huge pandemic.
Subject Animals as carriers of disease.
Epidemiology.
Virus diseases.
Viruses.
Added Title Animal infections and the next human pandemic
Spill over
ISBN 9780393066807
0393066800
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