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发表于2024-12-22
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A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases.
The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia—but those reports miss the big truth that such phenomena are part of a single pattern. The bugs that transmit these diseases share one thing: they originate in wild animals and pass to humans by a process called spillover. David Quammen tracks this subject around the world. He recounts adventures in the field—netting bats in China, trapping monkeys in Bangladesh, stalking gorillas in the Congo—with the world’s leading disease scientists. In Spillover Quammen takes the reader along on this astonishing quest to learn how, where from, and why these diseases emerge, and he asks the terrifying question: What might the next big one be?
David Quammen is the author of The Song of the Dodo, among other books. He has been honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters and is the recipient of a John Burroughs Medal and the National Magazine Award. He lives in Bozeman, Montana.
有一部分写得好,但很大一部分都是在讲故事,没太多科学的东西
评分正应时的一本书。可是身处疫情之中心浮气躁,大概花了个把多月才看完。 觉得写的很好,不枯燥但基本概念讲的还蛮清楚。有些黑色幽默。只是感慨,书中(2012年出版)流行病学家几乎都肯定The next big one(下一个大传染病)会在不远的将来发生,然而当它确实发生了,人类还是这么准备不足啊。书里面提了三类比较可能大爆发的病毒,黏液病毒(流感类),逆转录病毒(艾滋),冠状病毒(SARS),可不就是来了么。
评分萨斯是意大利人乌尔班尼发现并命名,他牺牲了自己,拯救了苍生,他是世界卫生组织的,病发时在河内,正好在医院去救一位香港去河内的美籍华人,感染上SARS之后,在河内过世了。
评分强烈推荐!作为科学的门外汉却总对纯粹的科学研究感到有意思。书中举了不少例子, 个个骨肉丰满且语言风趣,一点不觉得枯燥。而zoonosis的产生和传播也使人类必须反思自己的行为,因为并不存在“nature world”,我们和病毒都生活在一个世界。如果不约束自己的行为无节制的侵犯, 将有更多的病毒在进化机制下变成zoonosis.
评分萨斯是意大利人乌尔班尼发现并命名,他牺牲了自己,拯救了苍生,他是世界卫生组织的,病发时在河内,正好在医院去救一位香港去河内的美籍华人,感染上SARS之后,在河内过世了。
Overall, the book is pretty informative and science-based for a decent reader. By reading the book, one can learn a great deal of epidemic related knowledge. The book is sort of a page-turner itself during Covid-19 period(home-bound quarantine). I first le...
评分Overall, the book is pretty informative and science-based for a decent reader. By reading the book, one can learn a great deal of epidemic related knowledge. The book is sort of a page-turner itself during Covid-19 period(home-bound quarantine). I first le...
评分10月2号,一名英国旅行者从阿富汗乘飞机返回故乡格拉斯哥,在旅途中,他突然感到有些不适。几个小时以后他被诊断出患有克里米亚-刚果出血热——这种疾病的病毒特别危险,足以让他被送上一架军用运输机并转移到伦敦的一家隔离医院里。 他没撑过24小时就病发身亡了。 上个月,在...
评分 评分看了SARS那章,才发现这个译者有多不走心,时代周刊亚洲版翻译成亚洲时代是什么鬼…是头一次干翻译吗?另外提到的几个病毒学家根本查不到信息。我查了当年资料才把“关熠”和袁国勇对上号…中国翻译翻译中国人名字多查两下弄对很难吗?怀疑译者的工作态度。 不过书还是很有趣的...
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