Host into its first human but them. Viruses can only live in cellular creatures, can only replicate in animals, plants or some other kind of cellular creature. When a new virus appears in humans, it had to come from some other living creature, almost certainly an animal, probably a mammal or bird. When the virus passes from the nonhuman animal into its first human, that is the moment of spillover. Host hardly common . Are they common . Guest more common than we recognize. We have been recognizing more and more as they occur. Whenever there is a new virus it has to come from somewhere and there has been a drumbeat of these cases, spillovers of new viruses into humans, since the early 1960s. Possibly because there are more humans on the planet coming into contact with more animals and also because we are able to detect them more, we are studying them closely. Host can you tell us what is on the cover of the book . Guest there is a primate, i think it is a baboon, unleashing a terrifying
Virus that caused the covid pandemic. Host what is the scientific of the serengeti with your definition of a spillover . Friend nick nichols is guest it is the incident when a photographer . Of course. I would go off to wild places disease pathogen, for instance a and Great Stories about virus, passes from its nonhuman creatures and ecosystems and conservation and the people doing the work and living there. Now, i have taken 21 of those host into its first human but articles and use them as the them. Viruses can only live in cellular creatures, can only basis for a book that i hope is replicate in animals, plants or a unifying book. Some other kind of cellular i have created a lot of new creature. When a new virus appears in humans, it had to come from some reporting on these stories, other living creature, almost certainly an animal, probably a written a new forward and mammal or bird. Afterward talking about what we mean by wildness on this planet when the virus passes from the nonhu
Virus that caused the covid pandemic. Host what is the scientific definition of a spillover . Guest it is the incident when a disease pathogen, for instance a virus, passes from its nonhuman host into its first human but them. Viruses can only live in cellular creatures, can only replicate in animals, plants or some other kind of cellular creature. When a new virus appears in humans, it had to come from some other living creature, almost certainly an animal, probably a mammal or bird. When the virus passes from the nonhuman animal into its first human, that is the moment of spillover. Host hardly common . Are they common . Guest more common than we recognize. We have been recognizing more and more as they occur. Whenever there is a new virus it has to come from somewhere and there has been a drumbeat of these cases, spillovers of new viruses into humans, since the early 1960s. Possibly because there are more humans on the planet coming into contact with more animals and also because we
Author jeff, you opened your recent book with this quote from Rick Perlstein the historian. Crosscutting motives and narratives the complexity that defies storybook simplicity that is usually the way history happens. I think it is the most cogent ive ever heard. Rick does a tremendous job himself, and its true no historic event happens in vacuum. Its tied to many other things and that is the fascination in research and writing on the narrative nonfiction history. To read a quote from you as well and this is from 2021 in the cleburnene times review a lt of people no longer want to buy nonfiction to learn things. They want nonfiction bks to reflect what they already believe, books to reinforce their opinions. They want books that tell them everything they believe is absolutely right and that the other side is even worse than they thought. If you take a look at the bestseller list for nonfiction for the last several years, theres three categories generally represented. The first books by
These telesi companies, support cspan2 as a public service. Next is bookkeepings indepth program with bestselling author and journalist David Quammen. Is books include spillover and most recently breathless about the race to identify and defeat the virus that caused the covid19 pandemic. Host David Quammen, what is the scientific definition of a spillover . Guest a spillover is the incident when a disease pathogen passes from its nonhuman host into a human. Viruses can only live in cellular creatures, can only replicate themselves and animals, plants, fungi or some other cellular preacher. When a new virus appears in humans, it has to come from some other living creature, almost certainly an animal, probably a mammal or bird. When the virus passes from that nonhuman animal into its first human, that is the moment spillover. Host are they common . Guest they are, more common than we have recognized, but over the last 60 or 70 years, weve been recognizing them more and more. A new verse