Spillover : : Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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Pale horse -- Thirteen gorillas -- Everything comes from somewhere -- Dinner at the rat farm -- The deer, the parrot, and the kid next door -- Going viral -- Celestial hosts -- It depends.
A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.

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Interesting and Relevant submitted by Avliss on August 30, 2017, 11:50am Although a few years out of date by now, I think this is still a relevant text. While it is a bit long and can feel dense at parts, Quammen does an incredible job breaking down the complicated nature of zoonotic diseases into something more easily understood - something which is incredibly important, especially given recent events (e.g. the ebola epidemic and the zika outbreak in 2016).

Quammen also has two other, more recent, texts about Ebola and HIV/AIDS - those texts are shorter (being updated excerpts from this book), and if you're intimated by the size of this text but interested in the subject matter, you might start there and then read this.

scared submitted by kevinhe on July 17, 2019, 3:08pm this book told a lot about the pandemic disease associated with the animals, which we didn't pay enough attention before.