Contagio: La evolucion de las pandemias / Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

David Quammen

Contagio: La evolucion de las pandemias / Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Country
Spain
Published
28 May 2020
Pages
624
ISBN
9788418006760

Contagio: La evolucion de las pandemias / Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

David Quammen

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Desde hace anos, para los expertos y cualquier persona informada, el estallido de la siguiente pandemia era una cuestion de tiempo, y su origen, evidente: un virus latente en animales que diera el salto al ser humano como el HIV que provoco el SIDA o el H1N1 que causo la gripe de 1918, el ebola, el SARS, el virus de Marburgo o el que produjo la gripe aviar.

En esta obra de referencia internacional, David Quammen se sumerge en la historia reciente de esas enfermedades zoonoticas, y persigue su rastro en compania de los mejores cientificos del mundo en la selva centroafricana, las cuevas de China meridional o las azoteas de Banglades, pero tambien en los sofisticados laboratorios cuyo personal investiga virus letales bajo las mas altas medidas de seguridad. Aunque Contagio se lee como un thriller, repleto de incidentes, pistas e interrogantes, a la vista de la crisis desatada por la aparicion del SARS-CoV-2, su lectura no solo resulta apasionante; es imprescindible.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

[Mr. Quammen] is not just among our best science writers but among our best writers, period.
Dwight Garner, New York Times

The next big human pandemic the next disease cataclysm, perhaps on the scale of AIDS or the 1918 influenza is likely to be caused by a new virus coming to humans from wildlife. Experts call such an event spillover and they warn us to brace ourselves. David Quammen has tracked this subject from the jungles of Central Africa, the rooftops of Bangladesh, and the caves of southern China to the laboratories where researchers work in space suits to study lethal viruses. He illuminates the dynamics of Ebola, SARS, bird flu, Lyme disease, and other emerging threats and tells the story of AIDS and its origins as it has never before been told. Spillover reads like a mystery tale, full of mayhem and clues and questions. When the Next Big One arrives, what will it look like? From which innocent host animal will it emerge? Will we be ready?

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