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Fevered Planet
Fevered Planet: How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature | John Vidal
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shanaqui
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I did get this finished up. Depressing, but he does mention points of hope.

Just as a note, though, for all he sounds confident in discussing the science he says some very silly things, like referring to "Ebola and Marburg cells". There is not (and never could be) such a thing in existence: they're viruses, obligate intracellular parasites.

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shanaqui

Trying to finish this, this evening! It doesn't have many new insights for me -- David Quammen's Spillover, the pop-sci book that steered me into infectious diseases as a field in the first place, had a lot of the same things to say -- but it does articulate them clearly and with a bigger emphasis on the changes wrought by climate change and in a wider range of places.

It's pretty depressing to read, I'll be honest.