Spillover: Emerging Diseases, Animal Hosts, and the Future of Human Health

Ebola, SARS, Hendra, AIDS, and countless other deadly viruses all have one thing in common: the bugs that transmit these diseases all originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover.
In this gripping account, David Quammen takes the reader along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where, and why these diseases emerge and ask the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?