As I’ve been spending a fair amount of time recently reading the recently published “A Tidal Odyssey; Ed Ricketts and the Making of Between Pacific Tides” for an upcoming review, as well as devoting still more to refreshing my memories of “Between Pacific Tides” itself, I was delighted to receive a new book from University of Chicago Press that takes up a very much related theme but in in a remarkably different way.
By now you’ve likely read the report that Richard Preston’s best selling book The Hot Zone; the Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus is to be made into a major motion picture by director Ridley Scott. Ordinarily, given the fact that the disease is now front page news in the industrialized world, […]
An original Well-read Naturalist produced review of Spillover; Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen was published in the 21 October 2012 edition of The Oregonian newspaper and is now available for reading on Oregon Live, that newspaper’s website.
Heard of Ebola? Do the initials SARS ring any bells in your head? What about Hendra or Nipah? If you answered yes to any of these questions you are very likely (a.) better informed about emerging zoonotic infections than the average person, and (b.) very worried about what you know about them. However when you […]