Description
EL LIBRO INTERNACIONAL DE REFERENCIA DURANTE LA CUARENTENA. Desde hace a os, para los expertos y cualquier persona informada, el estallido de la siguiente pandemia era una cuesti n de tiempo, y su origen, evidente: un virus latente en animales que diera el salto al ser humano como el HIV que provoc el SIDA o el H1N1 que caus la gripe de 1918, el bola, 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 zoon ticas, y persigue su rastro en compa a de los mejores cient ficos del mundo en la selva centroafricana, las cuevas de China meridional o las azoteas de Banglad s, pero tambi n en los sofisticados laboratorios cuyo personal investiga virus letales bajo las m s 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 aparici n 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?
Author: David Quammen
Publisher: Debate
Published: 08/18/2020
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 1.70d
ISBN13: 9788418006760
ISBN10: 8418006765
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Infectious Diseases
- Medical | Epidemiology
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?
Author: David Quammen
Publisher: Debate
Published: 08/18/2020
Pages: 624
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.75lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 1.70d
ISBN13: 9788418006760
ISBN10: 8418006765
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Infectious Diseases
- Medical | Epidemiology
About the Author
David Quammen (Cincinatti, 1948) es un escritor estadounidense apasionado de la ciencia y la naturaleza. Ha escrito 15 libros acerca de temas que van desde los virus y epidemias hasta las relaciones del hombre con la naturaleza, la teoría de la evolución de Darwin y los procesos naturales. Su vocación por la divulgación científica le ha permitido escribir en medios como Outside, National Geographic, Rolling Stone y The New York Times.