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whitakk 's review for:
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
by David Quammen
Well-written with a different perspective than the other pandemic books I've read -- a specific focus on crossover of diseases between animals and humans (though plenty of other details), original reporting and storytelling that actually helps advance that story, and some different diseases than the well-known ones, especially with a non-US focus. Much longer than I needed though, both in the number of sections and the length of each one.
Three things I learned:
1. 25%+ of all mammals are bats, part of why so many zoonotic diseases can be traced back to bats
2. Based on genetic differences between the first two identifiable cases and the known rate of mutation, HIV likely crossed over to humans around the beginning of the 20th century, though it did not become an outbreak until much later
3. Among major diseases, rabies has the highest case fatality rate (Ebola is second)
Three things I learned:
1. 25%+ of all mammals are bats, part of why so many zoonotic diseases can be traced back to bats
2. Based on genetic differences between the first two identifiable cases and the known rate of mutation, HIV likely crossed over to humans around the beginning of the 20th century, though it did not become an outbreak until much later
3. Among major diseases, rabies has the highest case fatality rate (Ebola is second)