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Spillover

Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Spillover( )
Author: Quammen, David
ISBN:978-0-393-34661-9
Publication Date:Sep 2013
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $18.95
Book Description:

A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases, Spillover is "fascinating and terrifying ... a real-life thriller with an outcome that affects us all" (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction).

Book Details
Pages:592
Detailed Subjects: Medical / Epidemiology
Medical / Infectious Diseases
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.6 x 8.3 x 1.1 Inches
Book Weight:1.01 Pounds
Author Biography
Quammen, David (Author)
Writer David Quammen grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio and was later educated at both Yale and Oxford Universities.

Quammen began his career by writing for The Christian Science Monitor, the National Center for Appropriate Technology, and Audubon, Esquire, Rolling Stone, and Harpers Magazines. He wrote the novels The Soul of Viktor Tronko and The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, which won the 1997 New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism. He also received two National Magazine Awards for his column "Natural Acts" in Outside magazine.

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