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A masterpiece of research reporting that monitors the animal roots of emerging individuals diseases. The emergence of unusual new diseases is a scary problem that appears to be getting worse. In this particular age of fast travel, it threatens an internationally pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, Supports, and something called Hendra getting rid of horses and people in Australia - but those reports skip the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases discuss one thing: they originate in wildlife and cross to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen monitors this subject surrounding 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 researchers. In Spillover, Quammen requires the listener along upon this astonishing search to understand how, where from, and just why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?
