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Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus

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by David Quammen


  18. “It is difficult to describe working with a horse infected with Ebola”: Yaderny Kontrol (Nuclear Control) Digest No. 11, Center for Policy Studies in Russia, Summer 1999.

  19. “Taken together, our results clearly point”: Walsh et al. (2005), 1950.

  20. “Thus, Ebola outbreaks probably do not occur as”: Leroy et al. (2004), 390.

  21. “the revenge of the rainforest”: Preston (1994), 289.

  22. Do bats have a different “set point”: Calisher et al. (2006), 536.

  23. “Emphasis, sometimes complete emphasis, on nucleotide sequence”: Ibid., 541.

  24. “we are simply waiting for the next”: Ibid., 540.

  25. “The natural reservoir hosts have not yet been identified”: Ibid., 539.

  26. “is only one of many such cave populations”: Towner et al. (2009), 2.

  27. “Patient C was the father of a four-year-old girl”: Leroy et al. (2009), 5.

  28. “Thus, virus transmission may have occurred”: Ibid., 6.

  29. “In fact, it is highly likely that several other persons”: Ibid., 5.

  30. “Within days of his being diagnosed”: Branswell (2014), 2.

  31. the Gire study found “a rapid accumulation”: Gire et al. (2014), 1.

  32. “suggests that continued progression of this epidemic”: Ibid, 2.

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  About the Author

  David Quammen is an author and journalist who travels widely to some of the remotest corners of the earth. He writes for a broad range of publications such as Harper’s, Esquire, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone and the New York Times, and is a Contributing Writer at National Geographic. His journalism has won him three National Magazine Awards, and he is the recipient of the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

  Quammen is the author of several acclaimed science and natural history titles, as well as a number of novels. His most recent book, Spillover, from which this book is largely extracted, is an exploration into how some of the world’s most deadly viruses crossed over from non-human animals into humans. Spillover won the Science and Society Book Prize, from the National Association of Science Writers in the United States, and the Society of Biology Book Award in the United Kingdom.

  Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) and a few other organizations are providing crucial health care and support, in complement to national and local health authorities, within the countries afflicted by the 2014 West African outbreak.

  To learn more about MSF’s role or to make a donation, go to:

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  Copyright © 2014, 2012 by David Quammen

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