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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?” The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people. ” Ebola is in the news a lot at the moment.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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Some differences in animal behavior are quite striking. This would have allowed you to summarize your experience in sentences such as “A total of 98 boluses regurgitated by 52 chicks aged 1 day to 11 days after hatching form the sample and are shown to contain 323 food items.” at Disney’s Animal Kingdom ( source ).

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Birding Shanghai in July 2022

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” I have a scientific background myself, and I guess some experiments on animals may sometimes be justifiable, but others just leave me disgusted, such as this one. But it is all for science, I hear them say. Swinhoe’s White-eye was just promoted to the rank of a full species in 2018.

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