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I was about 12 years old when I read Outbreak by Robin Cook, the book that started my curiosity about the Ebola virus. I am 41 years old and still cannot stop myself from reading books of any sort related to the virus.

Not a book to read at the start of a pandemic, but a few years down the line is OK 😂.

Turns out coronavirus has been around since at least 2006 but it's managed to be contained, only becoming a pandemic when it escaped Asia.

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So it would seem

Self-explanatory from the title. Well-written account that brings the history of Ebola from where "The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus" leaves off up to recent events in 2014. 3 stars

Save yourself irritation and just get the book this originally came from, Spillover, which is very good. The content here is fine but there's little added, and the themes make more sense in the context of the other zoonotic diseases mentioned in Spillover.

Been reading 8 different books this year *sigh*--this is the first I've finished. Wasn't even on my radar at the start of the year but decided to read it after the second chapter of Spillover, as Ebola is an expanded and updated version of that chapter. I'm not sure there was enough new material to make it a necessary read on top of Spillover, but I call it a pick because it is a fascinating book about EVD (at least what was known as of 2014).

This is one of my favourite nonfiction books, if not my favourite. It reads like a thriller, made even scarier by the fact that it's all happening around us. I have a definite brain crush on David Quammen.