Description
Product ID: | 9780099522850 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Spillover |
Subtitle: | the powerful, prescient book that predicted the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. |
Authors: | Author: David Quammen |
Page Count: | 592 |
Subjects: | Social forecasting, future studies, Social forecasting, future studies, Globalization, Epidemiology and Medical statistics, History of medicine, Infectious and contagious diseases, Zoology and animal sciences, Social impact of environmental issues, Globalization, Epidemiology & medical statistics, History of medicine, Infectious & contagious diseases, Animal pathology & diseases, Social impact of environmental issues |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. Read this gripping, timely book about the transmission of deadly viruses from animal to human populations, and how we can fight the current Covid-19 pandemic. |
Imprint Name: | Vintage |
Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2013-08-01 |