{"id":2602,"date":"2020-04-08T01:50:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T19:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2020-04-08T01:50:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T19:50:50","slug":"day-25-on-david-quammens-spillover-terrific-book-that-foretold-our-pandemic-kind-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/08\/day-25-on-david-quammens-spillover-terrific-book-that-foretold-our-pandemic-kind-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 25: On David Quammen&#039;s &quot;Spillover&quot;: Terrific Book That Foretold Our Pandemic, Kind of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve seen various books mentioned as predicting pandemics, now that the coronavirus time is nigh, but not much mention of one of the best virus books I&#8217;ve read: David Quammen&#8217;s nonfiction book about the biology behind zoonotic diseases, <em>Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic<\/em> (2012). I read it when it first came out, and am a fan of Quammen&#8217;s work, dating back to his days at Outside magazine. It&#8217;s a terrific read, both thoughtful and technical. Some of the parts about African viruses are downright scary, including the search for the origins of Ebola and Marburg virus. It&#8217;s a good read in these trying times, Day 25 of my virus hunkering.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2603\" title=\"Screen Shot 2020-04-07 at 3.39.08 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-07-at-3.39.08-PM-695x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"942\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I&#8217;ve seen various books mentioned as predicting pandemics, now that the coronavirus time is nigh, but not much mention of one of the best virus books I&#8217;ve read: David Quammen&#8217;s nonfiction book about the biology behind zoonotic diseases, Spillover: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/08\/day-25-on-david-quammens-spillover-terrific-book-that-foretold-our-pandemic-kind-of\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,27,33],"tags":[55,68,75],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-covid-19","category-spillover","category-viruses","tag-book-reviewing","tag-covid-19","tag-david-quammens-spillover"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamjcobb.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}