The writing is excellent and well-researched, with a list of citations for each chapter.

The first crisis is ecological, the second is medical.' And they are not simply happening to us they represent the unintended results of things we are doing. 'Made no mistake they are connected, these disease outbreaks coming one after another. It is also an intelligent, thoughtful, and occasionally humorous book about the intersection between humans, disease, public health and the animal kingdom. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic explores the science behind human pandemics, and is a culmination of decades-long interest in animals, biology and travel. After all, there’s a reason he is has been given an Academy Award in Literature and is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award. Alright, maybe he isn’t a diviner maybe he merely pays attention to the scientists around him. He appears to have predicted the 2014 Ebola outbreak and ability to country jump years before it happened. I do think SARS was scary as a healthcare provider because it seemed to circumvent standard isolation and had a high fatality rate.ĭavid Quammen is prescient.

I thought the topic might give me heebie-jeebies, but it mostly didn't, except when it comes to traveling to China, Bangladesh or West Africa. And check out the comments below from 2016. Don't say David Quammen didn't tell you so. 2020 Update: Well, here we go, 2020 Covid pandemic.

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