![]() ![]() ![]() Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic explores the science behind human pandemics, and is a culmination of decades-long interest in animals, biology and travel. After all, there’s a reason he is has been given an Academy Award in Literature and is a three-time winner of the National Magazine Award. Alright, maybe he isn’t a diviner maybe he merely pays attention to the scientists around him. He appears to have predicted the 2014 Ebola outbreak and ability to country jump years before it happened. I do think SARS was scary as a healthcare provider because it seemed to circumvent standard isolation and had a high fatality rate.ĭavid Quammen is prescient. I thought the topic might give me heebie-jeebies, but it mostly didn't, except when it comes to traveling to China, Bangladesh or West Africa. And check out the comments below from 2016. ![]() Don't say David Quammen didn't tell you so. 2020 Update: Well, here we go, 2020 Covid pandemic. ![]()
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