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balletbookworm 's review for:
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by David Quammen
Excellent work of science writing.
I described this to a friend as the happy intersection of reading for work (epidemiologist) and reading for pleasure (epidemiologists who work in hospital acquired infections, and who aced infectious disease epidemiology coursework, have a morbid curiosity regarding crazy zoonoses - we don't like influenza season, either). Quammen has a great writing style and drops a lot of literary references so I think that helps non-science-y readers.
On the downside, it kind of makes you not want to go in caves (bats, ick). Ever. Or leave your house again. And I sure as hell don't want to visit an animal market in Asia - holy damn.
PS: influenza season is coming so get your flu shots!
I described this to a friend as the happy intersection of reading for work (epidemiologist) and reading for pleasure (epidemiologists who work in hospital acquired infections, and who aced infectious disease epidemiology coursework, have a morbid curiosity regarding crazy zoonoses - we don't like influenza season, either). Quammen has a great writing style and drops a lot of literary references so I think that helps non-science-y readers.
On the downside, it kind of makes you not want to go in caves (bats, ick). Ever. Or leave your house again. And I sure as hell don't want to visit an animal market in Asia - holy damn.
PS: influenza season is coming so get your flu shots!