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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?” .” I’ll sometimes add “It’s in West Africa, I’ll be in South Africa. ” Ebola is in the news a lot at the moment. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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Unfortunately, in the science of language, this does not sound particularly raunchy but rather like a rational decision: “A rare species such as the Chinese Pond Heron might choose heterospecific mates rather than abandoning all chances of reproduction.” Chinese Pond Herons also grow on trees. No wonder it looks a bit pissed off.

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Birding Shanghai in July 2022

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But it is all for science, I hear them say. Meanwhile at Nanhui, Pied Kingfishers are discussing the Ukraine war, corruption in politics, and rising fish prices. And I think it is safe to say that the results of their work did not result in finding a cure for cancer – though it may have provided them with some grant money.

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