Are these events independent misfortunes, or linked? Are they merely happening to us, or are we somehow causing them? What can be done? But this book is intended to be more than a work of reportage. But where and how will it start? Recent outbreaks offer some guidance, and so I traced 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. I tried hard to deliver the science, the history, the mystery, and the human anguish as page-turning drama.įrom what innocent creature, in what remote landscape, will the Next Big One emerge? A rodent in southern China? A monkey in West Africa? A bat in Malaysia that happens to roost above a pig farm, from which hogs are exported to Singapore? In this age of speedy travel between dense human populations, an emerging disease can go global in hours. I found surprises in the latest research, alarm among public health officials, and deep concern in the eyes of researchers. I interviewed survivors and gathered stories of the dead. For five years, I shadowed scientists into the field-a rooftop in Bangladesh, a forest in the Congo, a Chinese rat farm, a suburban woodland in Duchess County, New York-and through their high-biosecurity laboratories. Spillover is a work of science reporting, history, and travel, tracking this subject around the world. Odds are that the killer pathogen-most likely a virus-will spill over into humans from a nonhuman animal. His articles have also appeared in National Geographic, Harpers, Rolling Stone, the New York Times Book Review, The Spillover New Yorker, and other. For 15 years he wrote a column called 'Natural Acts' for Outside magazine.

The bug that's responsible will be strange, unfamiliar, but it won't come from outer space. David Quammen: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic - Sprache: Englisch. 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). David Quammen (born February 24, 1948) is an American science, nature, and travel writer and the author of fifteen books. The next big and murderous human pandemic, the one that kills us in millions, will be caused by a new disease-new to humans, anyway.

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