Ebola Author Says Outbreak Is 'Part of a Pattern' of Emerging, Deadly Diseases

David Quammen is a science writer who has spent years traveling the globe, researching emerging viruses and the people who study them

These viruses are officially known as zoonotic viruses, as they live in an animal host and occasionally jump to, or "spill over" into human beings. Quammen's 2012 book on the subject, Spillover, won an award from the National Association of Science Writers, and was shortlisted for three others

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He is the author of the timely forthcoming book: Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus. Read more...

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