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|title=Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

|author=David Quammen

|publisher=Vintage

|date=August 2013

|summary=On the impact which zoonoses have had, continue to have, and may have on human beings.

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''We provide an irresistible opportunity for enterprising microbes by the ubiquity and abundance of our human bodies.'' This is a salient fact taken away from David Quammen’s ''Spillover''. The entire book is a most trenchant eye-opener to just how much of an impact animal infections have on people; approximately 60% of human infectious diseases are ''zoonoses'', 'animal [infections] transmissible to humans'.