Comments on: Book review – Virusphere: From Common Colds to Ebola Epidemics: Why We Need the Viruses that Plague Us/2019/05/13/book-review-virusphere-from-common-colds-to-ebola-epidemics-why-we-need-the-viruses-that-plague-us/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:41:15 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Viruses: A Natural History | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/13/book-review-virusphere-from-common-colds-to-ebola-epidemics-why-we-need-the-viruses-that-plague-us/comment-page-1/#comment-87543Tue, 23 May 2023 11:56:29 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3404#comment-87543[…] fascinating phenomenon, residing right at the edge of living and non-living matter (even if some argue in favour of considering them alive). Viruses: A Natural History includes a large number of useful infographics that clarify many of […]

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]]>By: Book review – A Planet of Viruses (Third Edition) | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/13/book-review-virusphere-from-common-colds-to-ebola-epidemics-why-we-need-the-viruses-that-plague-us/comment-page-1/#comment-18640Wed, 31 Mar 2021 14:42:31 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3404#comment-18640[…] that outnumber us to a mind-boggling degree. As two of the essays here show, our world is a virosphere rather than a […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread – and Why They Stop | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/13/book-review-virusphere-from-common-colds-to-ebola-epidemics-why-we-need-the-viruses-that-plague-us/comment-page-1/#comment-8849Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:12:31 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3404#comment-8849[…] On the disease front, Kucharski covers recent outbreaks of fairly novel diseases such as Zika (which he encountered first-hand in Fiji in 2015), AIDS, Ebola, and SARS. He does not provide the full history of these the way David Quammen did in Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, but nevertheless gives you the relevant points in a concise form. Similarly, there is attention for some historical cases such as the miasma theory (the idea that bad air was behind diseases) and how John Snow’s work on cholera in 1850s London disproved this (see also my review of Virusphere: From Common Colds to Ebola Epidemics: Why We Need the Viruses that Plague Us). […]

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]]>By: Book review – Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/13/book-review-virusphere-from-common-colds-to-ebola-epidemics-why-we-need-the-viruses-that-plague-us/comment-page-1/#comment-8584Fri, 20 Mar 2020 12:21:05 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3404#comment-8584[…] are everywhere: some speak of the virosphere rather than the biosphere (see my review of Virusphere: From Common Colds to Ebola Epidemics: Why We Need the Viruses that Plague Us), while Carl Zimmer calls ours A Planet of Viruses. Of the Ebola virus, Quammen writes that it […]

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]]>By: Book review – Discovering Retroviruses: Beacons in the Biosphere | The Inquisitive Biologist/2019/05/13/book-review-virusphere-from-common-colds-to-ebola-epidemics-why-we-need-the-viruses-that-plague-us/comment-page-1/#comment-4449Mon, 10 Jun 2019 14:39:03 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=3404#comment-4449[…] retroviruses are something quite special (see e.g. Viruses: Agents of Evolutionary Invention and Virusphere: From Common Colds to Ebola Epidemics: Why We Need the Viruses that Plague Us). Where normal viruses commandeer the host’s biomolecular machinery for their reproduction, […]

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