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David Quammen is an American writer known for his in-depth exploration of natural history. His works often involve biology, ecology, and the relationship between humans and nature. Born on February 24, 1948, Quammen's writing career spans multiple genres, including scientific writing, travel literature, and journalism.

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“The more numerous we become, the more crowded, the more interconnected, the more demanding of resources, the more invasive of wild places, the more disruptive of richly diverse ecosystems—the closer we stand to the epidemic threshold for any new virus that probes us as a possible route to greater evolutionary success.”

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Book:Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

Source: Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

“Es de suponer que, cuando llegue la próxima gran pandemia, es probable que se conforme a ese mismo y perverso patrón, el de la elevada inefectividad antes de los síntomas notables, que la ayudará a moverse entre ciudades y aeropuertos como un ángel de la muerte.”

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Book:Contagio: La evolución de las pandemias

Source: Contagio: La evolución de las pandemias

“Vast areas of old forest have been cut, or chained down with bulldozers, to make way for cattle ranching and urban sprawl. People have planted orchards, established urban parks, landscaped their yards with blossoming trees, and created other unintended enticements amid the cities and suburbs. 'So bats have decided that, as their native habitat is disappearing, as climate is becoming more variable, and their food source is becoming less diverse, it's easier to live in an urban area.”

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Book:Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Source: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

“Later in conversation he corrected himself: It was in fact 1.1 million pigs. The difference might seem like just a rounding error, he told me, but if you ever had to kill an “extra” hundred thousand pigs and dispose of their bodies in bulldozed pits, you’d remember the difference as significant.”

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Book:Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Source: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

“When a silverback gorilla dies of Ebola, he does it beyond the eyes of science and medicine. No one is there in the forest to observe the course of his agony, with the possible exception of other gorillas. No one takes his temperature or peers down his throat. When a female gorilla succumbs to Ebola, no one measures the rate of her breathing or checks for a telltale rash. Thousands of gorillas may have been killed by the virus but no human has ever attended one of those deaths - not even Billy Karesh, not even Alain Ondzie. A small number of carcasses have been found, some of which have tested positive for Ebola antibodies. A large number of carcasses have been seen and reported by casual witnesses, in Ebola territory at Ebola times, but because the forest is a hungry place, most of those carcasses could never be inspected and sampled by scientific researchers.”

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Book:Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Source: Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic