David Waltner-Toews is a renowned Canadian epidemiologist, veterinarian and specialist in food and waterborne diseases, zoonoses and ecosystem health.

On Pandemics: Deadly Diseases from Bubonic Plague to Coronavirus examines the increasing impact of animal-borne diseases on our world and encourages us to re-examine our role in pandemics.

If we understand just a little more about the animals that we share this planet with and the micro-organisms that they carry around, both those that we eat, and those that eat us, we might even begin to understand ourselves.