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Spillover

Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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Author: Quammen, David
ISBN:978-1-84792-010-2
Publication Date:Nov 2012
Publisher:Penguin Random House
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $49.99
Book Description:

First, a horse in Brisbane falls ill: fever, swelling, bloody froth. Then thirteen others perish. The foreman at the stables becomes ill and the trainer dies. What is going on? It takes months to establish that the cause is a virus which has travelled from a tree-dwelling bat to horse, and from horse to man. The bats had lived undisturbed for centuries in Queensland's eucalyptus forests. Now the forests are being cut down and the colonies of bats are roosting...
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Book Details
Pages:592
Detailed Subjects: Medical / Infectious Diseases
Medical / Epidemiology
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):16.2 x 24 x 3.7 cm
Book Weight:0.851 Kilograms
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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