Sentence examples for book spillover from inspiring English sources

In his powerful and discomfiting new book, "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic," the science writer David Quammen cites a dismal word we'll be getting used to in the coming decades, whether we like it or not: zoonosis.

As Mr. Quammen points out in his scary but hard-to-put-down new book, "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic," eating tainted chimpanzee meat is a good way to come down with the Ebola virus.

Disease scares still provide an appealing cover for trade protectionism.Mr Quammen's book, "Spillover", is a scientific narrative rather than an historical one, focusing on zoonotic infections, those that pass from animals to humans.

His most recent book, "Spillover," is about human diseases that come to us from animals, and he arrives at the terrifying conclusion that such outbreaks are likely to become more frequent and more worrisome.

"These viruses don't seek out humans," David Quammen, author of the book Spillover, noted during Wednesday's event.

I spoke with David Quammen, author of "The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of his Theory of Evolution" and his newest book, "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic".

He says his parents, who can remotely recharge his account via a Harvard Web site, provide him with the money primarily for books, with the spillover left for entertainment.

As David Quammen wrote in "Spillover," the definitive book about the origin and evolution of human epidemics, "Advisory: If your husband catches an Ebola virus, give him food and water and love and maybe prayers but keep your distance, wait patiently, hope for the best — and, if he dies, don't clean out his bowels by hand.

They usually contain so much of what is charming about baseball: the mastery of a locked-in pitcher, superstitious teammates avoiding him in the dugout, dramatic defensive plays and nervous moments in the late innings, the emotional spillover when it is finally in the books.

"That creates a spillover effect".

Spillover effects are another risk.