

Upon its release, Spillover received positive reviews.

The book, written in narrative form, tells through the personal experiences of the author, who interviewed numerous pathologists and virologists globally to trace the evolution of some of the major pathogens that have affected the human species following a species leap ( spillover), a natural process by which an animal pathogen evolves and becomes able to infect, reproduce and transmit within the human species, in a process called zoonosis. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic is a book written in 2012 by American writer David Quammen.
