Spillover (book)

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

First edition
Author	David Quammen
Language	English
Subject	Epidemiology, viruses, pandemics
Published	2012
Publisher	W.W. Norton & Company
Publication place	United States
Pages	592 p
ISBN	978-0-393-06680-7
Website	davidquammen.com/spillover

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic is 2012 non-fiction book by David Quammen. The book, written in narrative form, tells through the personal experiences of the author, who interviewed numerous pathologists and virologists globally to trace the evolution of some of the major pathogens that have affected the human species following a species leap (spillover), a natural process by which an animal pathogen evolves and becomes able to infect, reproduce and transmit within the human species, in a process called zoonosis. Spillover received positive reviews.