DAVID QUAMMEN

摘要

Tlie next great plague is out there, probably in a chimpanzee or a chicken, waiting to make the leap to humans. In his new hook, Spillover; Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, science writer David Quammen patrols the boundary between animal and human health, where microhial threats are emerging faster than ever TIME: Why are we so transfixed by the threat of emerging diseases? Quammen: Well, we know that previous big ones have been very big.