Spillover: the powerful, prescient book that predicted the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.

by David Quammen

In older days, the new agent would have received a more vivid, geographical moniker such as Foshan virus or Guangzhou virus, and people would have run around saying: Watch out, he’s got Guangzhou! But by 2003 everyone recognized that such labeling would be invidious, unwelcome, and bad for tourism.