Which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed by journalists, public policymakers and others familiar with the material. After words airs every weekend on booktv at 10 p. M. On saturday, 12 by 9 p. M. On sunday, and 12 a. M. On monday. You can also watch after words online your code a booktv. Org and click on after words in the booktv series and topics list on the upper right side of the page. As barber explain, this is a book about skerry the emerging diseases and where they emerge from. And where they emerge from, generally come is wildlife. From other species, nonhuman animals in a particular nonhuman animals other than our domestic aid animals. If youve been following certain stories in the news over the last few months, you know that one point of entry into the subject is dating this paper itself if you probably heard about how the virus killing three people who visited yosemite this summer. People have been dying in north texas of west nile fever. I think in the dallas area longer than 15 people who died of west nile fever to since july. There has been an Ebola Outbreak again in central africa. The democratic republic of the congo has an Ebola Outbreak that killed three dozen people i think by now, and its still going on. There was another Ebola Outbreak across the border in uganda, unrelated to the spillover that it caused the outbreak in the democratic republic of the congo. That one has been ended. So these things are happening. This is like a drumbeat of disease outbreaks and small crises. Theres another on the Arabian Peninsula. There is a virus that emerged that closely resembles the sars virus, the launch of the same family, not really scared the disease experts back in 2003. This new sars like a virus out of the Arabian Peninsula has only killed one person, put another man in the hospital in britain, but scientists all over the world watching it carefully. Why are they watching it carefully . Because they know that the next big one could look Something Like that. So there is this, as i said, a drumbeat of these things. Those diseases that ive mentioned all have two things in common. They all come out of wildlife. They emerge from nonhuman animals, and among those that i mentioned they are all caused by viruses and thats the particular profile of the scariest of the exemplars of this phenomenon. But scientists have a fancy name for it. As barbara mentioned they call the animal infection the past into humans zoonoses