By explaining this growing trend, Quammen not only provides a warning about the diseases we will face in the future, he also causes us to reflect on our place as humans in the earth's ecosystem., Starred review.a frightening but critically important book for anyone interested in learning about the prospects of the world's next major pandemic., David Quammen might be my favorite living science writer: amiable, erudite, understated, incredibly funny, profoundly humane., That hasn't won a nonfiction National Book Award or Pulitzer Prize is an embarrassment.Timely and terrifying. David Quammen takes us on a quest to understand AIDS, Ebola, and other diseases that share a frightening commonality: they all jumped from wild animals to humans. Quammen does a beautiful job of showing how so much of scientific knowledge is provisional, with great unknowns about infectious diseases., This is a frightening and fascinating masterpiece of science reporting that reads like a detective story.
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