A vital, timely text on the viruses that cause pandemics and how to face them, by the New York Times bestselling author of How Not to Die .
From tuberculosis to bird flu and HIV to coronavirus, these infectious diseases share a common origin story: human interaction with animals.
Otherwise known as zoonotic diseases for their passage from animals to humans, these pathogens--both pre-existing ones and those newly identified--emerge and re-emerge throughout history, spar.
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