Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

by David Quammen

Book Overview

The next big human pandemic--the next disease cataclysm, perhaps on the scale of AIDS or the 1918 influenza--is likely to be caused by a new virus coming to humans from wildlife. Experts call such an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393066800
• ISBN13: 9780393066807
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 587 Pages
• Weight: 2.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.5"