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4.42 AVERAGE
4.42 AVERAGE
informative
reflective
medium-paced
Fed bog om viruser; spændende fortalt historie om de kendte af dem (Ebola, Aids, SARS/Corona, Influenza m.m), forståelig videnskab bag viruserne og det detektivarbejde der foregår verden over for at finde ud af hvorfra og hvordan de opstod.
Very accessible yet rigorous book. The author's writing style is informative and funny.
A lot of interesting material, but too much filler! Couldn't get into it.
Read this book, which was published in 2012, if you still need convincing that the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 was a largely predictable event for which the US should have been much better prepared. Quammen does an excellent job conveying how much remains unknown about zoonotic infections, but there's a lot that we do know, and with Quammen as the storyteller, most of it is riveting. There's a lot of science packed into this book, but the style is very conversational and easy to read.
There are a couple of misses regarding individual human behavior change, policy, systems etc. and how that impacts pandemics but overall this made me miss working in infectious disease sooo much! And Africa!
adventurous
informative
medium-paced
The main lesson I learnt from this book... don't ever eat a primate.
As with many nonfiction works, this book was about 2x (maybe even 3x) longer than it needed to be. I struggled to get through it. While each story was relevant, there were way too many non-relevant details presented. Just stick to the science please.
A good read, informative and interesting. I enjoyed the occasional bursts of humour and anecdotes.