Spillover
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Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen, author and science journalist
The next big and murderous human pandemic, the one that kills us in millions, will be caused by a new disease—new to humans, anyway. The bug that's responsible will be strange, unfamiliar, but it won't come from outer space. Odds are that the killer pathogen—most likely a virus—will spill over into humans from a nonhuman animal.
Published in 2012.