Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic - Couverture rigide

Quammen, David

 
9780393066807: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0393066800 ISBN 13 : 9780393066807
Editeur : W W Norton & Co Inc, 2012

Synopsis

Book by Quammen David

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Revue de presse

"Quammen’s book is compelling and shows that there are many candidates out there vying to be the next pandemic" (Euan Lawson British Journal of General Practice)

"A frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story" (Walter Isaacson)

"Quammen has a wide range of knowledge, an agile pen, and a generous heart" (James Gorman New York Times Book Review)

"A tremendous book...this gives you all you need to know and all you should know. Quammen’s research and the analysis make sensationalism unnecessary" (Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times)

"Mr Quammen is not just among our best science writers but among our best writers, period...that he hasn’t won a non-fiction National Book Award or Pulitzer Prize is an embarrassment... Quammen is a patient explainer and a winning observer, he has a novelistic flair for describing his fellow humans... Quammen, combining physical and intellectual adventure, wraps his canny explorations into powerful moral witness" (Dwight Garner New York Times)

Présentation de l'éditeur

First, a horse in Brisbane falls ill: fever, swelling, bloody froth. Then thirteen others drop dead. The foreman at the stables becomes ill and the trainer dies. What is going on?

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. 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.

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Éditeur
W W Norton & Co Inc
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0393066800
ISBN 13 
9780393066807
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
587
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780393346619: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0393346617 ISBN 13 :  9780393346619
Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2013
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