What if we soon have a world without insects? Q: Is there anything you'd like us to read? A: I warmly recommend to you Robert Penn Warren’s short book of related poems, a poem cycle as biography, Audubon: A Vision.

Q: Is there any action you would like us all to take at the present time? Vote your brain! Also: Walk in the woods and remember how precious every butterfly is. Meanwhile I’m spending most of my time answering interview requests about COVID-19 and my related 2012 book, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. My wife, Betsy Gaines Quammen, is about to publish her first book, nonfiction, based on a dissertation but much revised to read like a guilty pleasure: American Zion: God, Cliven Bundy, and Public Lands in the West. My python Boots, who lives in my office, is healthy and robust, knock wood.

Q: Any fresh news from your life? A: I’m at work on a book about cancer and evolution. Examines the emergence and causes of new diseases all over the world, describing a process called 'spillover' where illness originates in wild animals before being passed to humans and discusses the potential for the next huge pandemic. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic: 9780099522850: : Books For the latest information on COVID-19 and vaccines Please visit the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Buy new: 17. Though David is in high demand in the media throughout the world for his perspective on the current crisis, he took the time to talk with us via email. Make no mistake, they are connected, these disease outbreaks coming one after another.

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