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PoindexterOglethorpe

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1. The book Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen

Reply to canetoad (Original post)

Sun Apr 18, 2021, 06:19 PM

Apr 2021

is entirely about how disease move from animals to humans. It came out in 2012.

I have a copy of that book and read about half of it some years ago. I have pulled it off the shelf. Maybe I will finish it.

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Chinese officials identified Huanan market as a pandemic risk years before COVID emerged [View all] canetoad Apr 2021 OP

The book Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2021 #1

It should be required reading for all of us. Irish_Dem Apr 2021 #2

I have been fascinated by diseases and epidemiology my whole life PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2021 #4

I think we have all had a crash mini course on these topics, plus virology. Irish_Dem Apr 2021 #5

The crash course only exists for those who have been paying attention. PoindexterOglethorpe Apr 2021 #9

Sounds like my reading habits, especially lately. I try to read raccoon Apr 2021 #12

Yes the ignorant keep their head in the sand. Not a good way to deal with an emergency. Irish_Dem Apr 2021 #14

I hope that someday we can get the truth out of China. Irish_Dem Apr 2021 #3

A Chinese market with a Texas attitude towards safety. Grokenstein Apr 2021 #6

No one who's seen the movie "Contagion" would be surprised at that prediction. FailureToCommunicate Apr 2021 #7

china is not the only wet market in the wolrld ! monkeyman1 Apr 2021 #8

apparently there is a difference between "wet markets" orleans Apr 2021 #10

Perhaps that's why we had people embedded in China's CDC NullTuples Apr 2021 #11

You nailed it. twodogsbarking Apr 2021 #13

Has Biden reinstated that? IronLionZion Apr 2021 #15

After a review by forum hosts....LOCKING Omaha Steve Apr 2021 #16

This message was self-deleted by its author Omaha Steve Apr 2021 #17