Spillover Chapter Summary

Spillover is a science report book wrote by David Quammen and public in 2012. David wrote about his travel, the research, and the history of science and more important is the zoonotic disease. In detail, David went to several countries and write about the diseases, the work of scientists on the diseases and the problem that created by the disease. He went to Asia, Africa, Australia, Europe and North America. The diseases that David focused on were the disease that can spread out from animals to human. The diseases included Ebola, AIDS, Malaria, SARS, Q fever and Herpes B…All of the diseases were break out in the past and killed a large number of people and animals. Each virus comes from a specific animal and has the infection on people. Each

In his book, it does not just to introduce what he had seen on his travel, what he had learned from the problem of the disease. The book is a warning, a reminder for people. Why the diseases of animal can infect human, how the organism of human deal with the viruses that do not come from people and a lot of questions David was mention. It makes people feel about the importance of the science, about the movement of people on the global. The travel in each country makes the book more interested. The reader can keep reading and make them want to know what will be next, where he will go and what the disease David will explore. The details, the statists in each case, the animals that start the disease, the infection of viruses were base on the fact, therefore It created the trust and showed the hard work of the author. More important, the author listed all the reasons of why the disease broke out so fast and killed a lot of people. The diseases were not naturally infected human, because it spread and break out by the action of the human. People were decreasing the living space of animal. The animals were getting closer to human. People were destroying the ecosystem, which made something change. Then the viruses have the ability to affect human. The purposes of the author in the last chapter are to leave the reader with the compassion. So people can