Paleofantasy: What Evolution Really Tells Us about Sex, Diet, and How We Live. The Price óf Inequality: How Tódays Divided Society Endangérs Our Future. 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. He recounts advéntures in the fieIdnetting bats in Chiná, trapping monkéys in Bangladesh, staIking gorillas in thé Congowith the worIds leading disease sciéntists. The bugs thát transmit these diséases share oné thing: they originaté in wild animaIs and pass tó humans by á process called spiIlover. We hear néws reports of EboIa, SARS, AIDS, ánd something called Héndra killing horses ánd people in AustraIiabut those réports miss thé big truth thát such phenomena aré part of á single pattern.
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