Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago
Author and journalist David Quammen talks with Jeffrey Spitz Cohan of Jewish Veg about his critically acclaimed book "Spillover" that predicted a coronavirus pandemic from a wet market in China.
"Spillover" is one of the most important books ever written about the origin and nature of zoonotic diseases, which are viruses and bacteria that transfer from animals to people. Most of the major epidemics and pandemics of the past 30 years have been zoonotic in origin. And animal agriculture plays a big role in that.
Author and journalist David Quammen talks with Jeffrey Spitz Cohan of Jewish Veg about his critically acclaimed book "Spillover" that predicted a coronavirus pandemic from a wet market in China.
"Spillover" is one of the most important books ever written about the origin and nature of zoonotic diseases, which are viruses and bacteria that transfer from animals to people. Most of the major epidemics and pandemics of the past 30 years have been zoonotic in origin. And animal agriculture plays a big role in that.
