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COVID-19 & “The Next Big One”:  Spillover revisited

March 12, 2020 By Merritt Clifton

Science writer David Quammen saw COVID-19 coming COVID-19,  though renamed twice just in the first few months of 2020,  “is not as novel as you might think,”  explained veteran science writer David Quammen in the January 28,  2020 edition of The New York Times. Quammen,  72,  was uniquely positioned to comment,  not only because he […]

Filed Under: Africa, African wildlife, Asia/Pacific, Cats, China, Culture & Animals, Disasters, Disease, Dogs, Dogs & Cats, Eating cats, Eating dogs, Feature Home Bottom, Food, Food & agriculture, Global, Horses & Farmed Animals, Live markets, Meat issues, Uses of dogs Tagged With: Anderson G. McKendrick, David Quammen, Merritt Clifton, Peter Daszak, William Ogilvy Kermack, Zheng-Li Shi

Screaming for the dragon slayer

January 16, 2016 By Merritt Clifton

Chained to fast-falling hunting license sales, with agency revenue and careers at stake, wildlife managers from Florida to Texas are looking toward modestly rising interest in alligator hunting for the miracle that might save them from a fate worse than death––or at least from having to cater chiefly to non-hunting,  non-trapping,  non-fishing clientele. Listed as a […]

Filed Under: Adaptive species, Constrictors, Feral & "nuisance" wildlife, Feral animals, Hunting & trapping, Reptiles, Snakes, Wildlife Tagged With: alligators, David Quammen, Donna Hart, Merritt Clifton, Pythons, Robert W. Sussman

Spillover:  Animal Infections & The Next Human Pandemic

July 31, 2015 By Merritt Clifton

by David Quammen W.W. Norton and Company (500 5th Ave.,  New York, NY  10110),  2012.  592 pages,  hardcover.  $28.95 Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Now,  at the height of by far the worst outbreak of Ebola virus on record,  is an excellent time to either read or re-read David Quammen’s 2012 opus Spillover:  Animal Infections & The […]

Filed Under: Africa, Book & film reviews, Culture & Animals, Feature Home Top, Sub-Saharan Tagged With: AIDS, bushmeat, David Quammen, Ebola, Merritt Clifton, ProMED, zoonotic disease

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