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|title=Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
|author=David Quammen
|rating=5
|genre=Popular Science
|summary=''We provide an irresistible opportunity for enterprising microbes by the ubiquity and abundance of our human bodies.'' This is a salient fact taken away from David Quammen's ''Spillover''. The entire book is a most trenchant eye-opener to just how much of an impact animal infections have on people; approximately 60% of human infectious diseases are ''zoonoses'', 'animal [infections] transmissible to humans'.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099522853</amazonuk>
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|summary=I knew from the title this would be a good book. All that alliteration couldn't be for nothing, surely? Then I saw the cover, with a delightful bear wearing round wire-rimmed glasses and an oversized bowtie. 'Better and better,' I thought to myself. And you'll be relieved to hear that the story does not disappoint. This is one of my favourite books this year, and I have read it repeatedly with both my six year old and my one year old, both of whom enjoy it in different ways!
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849396876</amazonuk>
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