Ebola and Beyond: Scary Viruses in a Globalized World
David Quammen is a journalist and award-winning author of several books including Spillover (2012), which explores the science, history, and human impacts of emerging diseases, especially viral diseases. More recently, he has released two short books drawn from Spillover: Ebola (2014) and The Chimp and the River (2015).
Educated at Yale College, Quammen was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University. He is a three-time recipient of the National Magazine Award. Other honors include an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Lannan Literary Award for nonfiction and the John Burroughs Medal for nature writing.
A contributing science writer for National Geographic, Quamman travels extensively, often to wild and remote places where human encroachment clashes with centuries of virgin wilderness.
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