
Spillover
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Narrated by:
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Jonathan Yen
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By:
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David Quammen
A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.
The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia - but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world. He recounts adventures in the field - netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congo - with the world’s leading disease scientists. In Spillover, Quammen takes the listener along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?
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The content of the book is interesting, but the narration is so painfully boring that I'm about to delete the book and I'm not even one third of the way finished yet. If this man's voice were a drug, it would most definitely be Valium.Do yourself a favor and buy this in paperback instead.
Horrible narration
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Surprising
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A wealth of Information
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Didn’t expect to actually love it!
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Excellent - dense, informative, and gallows humor
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Startlingly Prescient
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Dry, but great
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A must read if you love adventure and mystery
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Technical, but Captivating
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A great listen, save for... a lot of words
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