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Book Review: Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

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My parents are in England, should I be worried about the conflict on the other side of Europe in the Ukraine?” ” Ebola is in the news a lot at the moment. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people. David Quammen’s approach to big subjects is to humanise them.

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Extinction Week Recap

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The prehistoric extinctions most famously include the megafaunal assemblages of Europe, the Americas, Australia and Madagascar. And some of the extinctions were of small animals, like the many dwarf goats and elephants in the Mediterranean. Mega Rarity Tour of New Zealand – Extinction Special. Comebackers.