Spillover

书名：SpilloverAnimalInfectionsandtheNextHumanPandemic
作者：DavidQuammen
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ISBN：9780393066807
出版社：W.W.Norton&Company
出版时间：2012-10-1
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：592
豆瓣评分： 9.0

书籍简介：

A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases. The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia—but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world. He recounts adventures in the field—netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congo—with the world’s leading disease scientists. In Spillover Quammen takes the reader along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?

作者简介：

David Quammen is the author of The Song of the Dodo, among other books. He has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is the recipient of a John Burroughs Medal and the National Magazine Award. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.

书友短评：

@ Algiersea 非常想推荐。上课读的。这可能是我觉得大家眼下最需要一读的书了，毕竟真的应该认真了解下一些事。微信读书上有中译《致命接触》，虽不完美但有生于无。读完觉得人类真的一是非常容易忽视自己是动物这件事，二是在一次次大爆发的前后都对病毒和传染病的运作方式了解太少。此作不仅囊括了对亨尼巴病毒、埃博拉、SARS、HIV、疟疾等病毒所造成大爆发的记述，还介绍了更多传染病学家和生态学家探索病毒的过程、收获和挑战。同时还介绍了蝙蝠、禽类、猩猩猕猴等动物的特性，和它们在人畜传染中的参与及所受到的迫害。作者在National Geographic工作多年，有着扎实的科学基础和丰富的户外野生研究经验，文笔流畅不失幽默，平衡历史和科学，叫人警醒却镇静，是优秀的非虚构，一本信息量极大的传染病作品我看得津津有味。 @ clee An encyclopedia of zoonosis, based on science but with narrative. Certain chapters in the later part is a bit over the line to fictional, but overall an enjoyable and informative read @ Line Everyone is in the race to find the next big one and yet everyone missed it. That's human vs nature. @ Akiya What is the Next Big One? And When? 书结尾还着重梳理了流感，并提到了冠状病毒值得特别注意。哎。Like he said, human race is an outbreak in the planet history. We are too many, and we go and even fly everywhere. @ momo 传染病学入门 建立常识 @ clee An encyclopedia of zoonosis, based on science but with narrative. Certain chapters in the later part is a bit over the line to fictional, but overall an enjoyable and informative read @ Iris. 现在看来真是好精准的预言。*Sarcasticly* Wow, science is real!

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