Comments on: Book review – Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

By: Book review – Duel Without End: Mankind’s Battle with Microbes | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 17 Mar 2023 22:40:23 +0000

[…] is that Frøland mentions influenza as the most likely next pandemic, even though virologists, writers, and the World Health Organisation have prominently worried about […]

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By: Book review – Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 26 Dec 2022 16:17:39 +0000

[…] as the COVID-19 pandemic first swept around the world, I reviewed David Quammen’s 2012 book Spillover for background reading. It looked at the risk of zoonosis: the spilling over of an infectious […]

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By: Book review – The Complete History of the Black Death (Second Edition) | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 16 Nov 2022 08:13:41 +0000

[…] Death had to take the long way around. As an interesting aside, David Quammen’s tagline for Spillover was “everything comes from somewhere” and recent scholarship, not touched on here, is […]

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By: Book review – Viral: The Search for the Origin of COVID-19 | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:34:52 +0000

[…] When the pandemic started, my gut instinct was to assume zoonosis (I even reviewed Quammen’s Spillover and sent a copy to my mum), but picking favourites is not how science works. With time, I have […]

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By: Book review – Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:03:05 +0000

[…] he grants it is too early to take stock of the COVID-19 pandemic, he reiterates that we were warned time and again. “For scholars who study the past or present of infectious disease, the pandemic […]

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By: Book review – A Planet of Viruses (Third Edition) | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:42:26 +0000

[…] of species boundaries by infectious diseases, zoonosis, the origins of HIV, and how this virus, to quote David Quammen, has since diversified “like an infectious starburst“. A piece on the West Nile Virus […]

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By: Year list – The Inquisitive Biologist’s top 5 reads of 2020 | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 31 Dec 2020 18:08:24 +0000

[…] Six recommendations for the price of five! I would not normally include a book published eight years ago in my year overview, but 2020 was no ordinary year. Of all the books I read in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, David Quammen’s Spillover was surprisingly the most relevant for providing a longer-term perspective. This was the book I recommended to my parents to make sense of what was going on. It remains a magnificent piece of science reporting that weds exceptional clarity to spell-binding storytelling. Read more… […]

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By: Book review – The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What’s Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 12:52:23 +0000

[…] books such as Spillover and COVID-19 have pointed out that virologists have been warning of the threat of pandemics for […]

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By: Book review – COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened, and How to Stop the Next One | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:04:23 +0000

[…] complacency in the face of warnings from the scientific community. This was true when Quammen wrote Spillover, and it still holds […]

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By: Book review – Understanding Coronavirus | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – Understanding Coronavirus | The Inquisitive Biologist — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 15:01:25 +0000

[…] Fight Back is updated and now titled On Pandemics. I am surprised that David Quammen’s Spillover has not been reissued yet (he has since revisited some of his interviewees for a piece in The New […]

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