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In Spillover, David Quammen takes on “the next big human pandemic,” which could very well be a “spillover” disease originating in animals, eventually infecting human hosts. The characteristics of this next new plague could resemble Ebola, SARS, bird flu, Lyme disease or any one of a number of zoonotic plagues, diseases that transfer from animal host to human.

In 1951, doctors took samples from Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cancer and grew the cells without Lacks’ consent. These cells, the sales of which constitute a multi-billion dollar industry, are still used in thousands of experiments around the world.