"Science writing as detective story at its best." --Jennifer Ouellette,
Scientific American
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Scientific American
Best Book of the Year, and a Finalist for the National Book Critics
Circle Award.
Ebola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless other deadly viruses all have
one thing in common: the bugs that transmit these diseases all originate
in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. In
this gripping account, David Quammen takes the listener along on this
astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases
emerge and asks the terrifying question: what might the next big one be?