Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Informationen zum Autor David Quammen 's sixteen previous books include The Tangled Tree , The Song of the Dodo , The Reluctant Mr. Darwin , and Spillover , a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and recipient of the Premio Letterario Merck. He has written for the New Yorker , Harper's Magazine , the Atlantic , National Geographic and Outside , among other publications, and is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award. Quammen shares a home in Bozeman, Montana, with his wife, Betsy Gaines Quammen, author of American Zion , and with two Russian wolfhounds, a cross-eyed cat, and a rescue python. Visit him at DavidQuammen.com Klappentext 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. This title tracks these infections to their source and asks what we can do to prevent some new pandemic spreading across the face of the earth. Zusammenfassung 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. This title 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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A frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story Walter Isaacson

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: David Quammen
• Editore: Vintage UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.08.2013
• EAN: 9780099522850
• ISBN: 978-0-09-952285-0
• Pagine: 592
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 37 mm
• Serie: VINTAGE BOOKS
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; Globalization, Epidemiology & medical statistics, NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / History, MEDICAL / Infectious Diseases, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, Social forecasting, future studies, History of Medicine, Infectious & contagious diseases, Infectious and contagious diseases, Veterinary medicine: diseases and therapeutics, Epidemiology and Medical statistics, HEALTH & FITNESS / Diseases / Contagious (incl. Pandemics), Animal Pathology & Diseases