Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

by David Quammen

Any such spillover in the reverse direction—from humans to a nonhuman species—is known as an anthroponosis.

There is no reason to assume that she will be the last.

Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence to designing malarial parasites.

But by 2003 everyone recognized that such labeling would be invidious, unwelcome, and bad for tourism.

Everything nowadays moves around the planet faster, including viruses.

A single gram of placenta from an aborting goat can contain as many as 1 billion bacterial particles.