The next big pandemic could be a tick of the biological clock away.David Quammen
Disease, it turns out, is largely an environmental issue. Sixty percent of emerging infectious diseases that affect humans are zoonotic.David Quammen
By nibbling away at the planet’s-arithmetic mean of biodiversity, an emerging virus can make our world a riskier place.David Quammen
Our disruption of the natural world will unseal Pandora's box of diseases.David Quammen
The zoonotic diseases are today’s version of the plague, a menace that goes where it pleases and strikes without warning.David Quammen
A shift in an ecosystem, caused by human activity, can mean a lethal new pathogen has entered human populations.David Quammen
Our relationship with nature is more fragile than we realise. We are not just passengers on this planet, but also drivers.David Quammen
In the context of zoonotic diseases, every incursion into the forest is a roll of biological dice.David Quammen
Infectious diseases have a way of reminding us that we are not as dominant over nature as we like to assume.David Quammen
The seeming tranquility of nature can be deceptive, as it teems with viruses on the hunt for new hosts.David Quammen