Spillover

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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).



In 2020, the novel coronavirus gripped the world in a global pandemic and led to the death of hundreds of thousands. The source of the previously unknown virus? Bats. This phenomenon—in which a new pathogen comes to humans from wildlife—is known as spillover, and it may not be long before it happens again.

Prior to the emergence of our latest health crisis, renowned science writer David Quammen was traveling the globe to better understand spillover’s devastating potential. For five years he followed scientists to a rooftop in Bangladesh, a forest in the Congo, a Chinese rat farm, and a suburban woodland in New York, and through high-biosecurity laboratories. He interviewed survivors and gathered stories of the dead. He found surprises in the latest research, alarm among public health officials, and deep concern in the eyes of researchers.

Spillover delivers the science, the history, the mystery, and the human anguish of disease outbreaks as gripping drama. And it asks questions more urgent now than ever before: From what innocent creature, in what remote landscape, will the Next Big One emerge? Are pandemics independent misfortunes, or linked? Are they merely happening to us, or are we somehow causing them? What can be done? Quammen traces the origins of Ebola, Marburg, SARS, avian influenza, Lyme disease, and other bizarre cases of spillover, including the grim, unexpected story of how AIDS began from a single Cameroonian chimpanzee. The result is more than a clarion work of reportage. It’s also the elegantly told tale of a quest, through time and landscape, for a new understanding of how our world works—and how we can survive within it.

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Spillover

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Read this gripping timely book about the transmission of deadly viruses from animal to human populations and how we can tackle a global pandemic as globalization spreads and as we destroy the ancient ecosystems we encounter strange and dangerous infections that originate in animals but that can Op voorraad. Voor 23:59 besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Monster van God

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Duizenden jaren lang hebben leeuwen krokodillen beren en tijgers geheerst over de vlaktes bossen en rivieren op aarde rond het jaar 2150 zou het zomaar kunnen dat ze alleen nog leven achter hekwerken en glazen wanden david quammen verhaalt van het lot van de leeuwen in het girwoud in india de Op voorraad. Voor 22:00 uur besteld, morgen in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 januari 2013

Aantal pagina's: 592

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: David Quammen

Hoofduitgeverij: Groothandel - Wil

Co Uitgever(s): WIL

Eerste Vertaler: Sebastian Vogel

Tweede Vertaler: Vogel, Sebastian

Originele titel: Spillover. Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

AI-gegenereerd: Nee

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 141 mm

Product hoogte: 27 mm

Product lengte: 211 mm

Studieboek: Ja

Verpakking breedte: 133 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 29 mm

Verpakking lengte: 203 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 651 g

eWaste: Nee

EAN: 9780393346619

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