by David Quammen · DEBATE · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788418006760
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«Contagio: La evolución de las pandemias» is David Quammen's popular science essay, published by Debate in paperback (624 pages, in Spanish).
David Quammen investigates zoonotic diseases, those that jump from animals to humans, and accompanies scientists through the Central African jungle, caves in southern China, and rooftops in Bangladesh. He reviews viruses such as Ebola, SARS, and Marburg, and cases like HIV and the 1918 flu, showing how the next pandemic emerges.
Translation of the original «Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic» (2012), in the Science and Technology collection.
For those interested in popular science and public health who want to understand how pandemics originate and spread.
David Quammen is an American writer focusing on science, nature, and travel. He is the author of fifteen books. Quammen's articles have appeared in Outside, National Geographic, Harper's Magazine, Rolling Stone, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, and other periodicals. He is also a science communicator.
