Ebola, David Quammen
This is actually an excerpt from the excellent book Spillover, with a few details added because it was published slightly later, as the ebola epidemic really kicked off. It doesn’t contain anything new that wasn’t in Spillover, and I actually ended up asking for a refund because that wasn’t clear up-front.
However, it’s a great excerpt, and I do strongly recommend Quammen’s writing on diseases — just don’t be fooled into getting the excerpts of Spillover instead of just buying the whole book. It’s a crafty idea by his publishers, but it’s just annoying. The full book links up the various diseases and expands on themes they share; this mostly comes across from Ebola on its own, but you get a much fuller picture with the rest of the book to refer to.
Information: good, packaging: disingenuous.
I like the sound of Spillover. I’m fascinated by diseases but just can’t find the time to devote to stuff like that at the moment. Maybe when I get the tbr down a bit I can look at these things!
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I really enjoyed it! It’s not the most up to date now, since it was written before the big Ebola outbreak, but the principles are still true.