Short Summary Of Herpes By David Quammen

ruined that by talking about the monkey forest there in relation to Herpes B. Granted, he did say that transmission between those monkeys and humans are slim, but it can happen. It was interesting though that most of the sources for theses diseases are bats. I never thought much of bats, until I learned that they carry some nasty viruses. On the other hand though, this book made me more informed. The author states that Spillover wasn’t written to make people worry more, but to make us smarter. I believe I am smarter because of this book. I’m not paranoid to the point where I will be anxiously awaiting the next pandemic, but I am more aware of what could potentially happen one day.
David Quammen doesn’t put a whole lot about what he truly thinks in the book until he closer to the end. In the book, he mentioned that there are seven billion people on this planet and we are the largest species of vertebrates as abundant as we are now. He basically says that humans are making the problem worse. We have a hand in …show more content…
He asked, “Are we all gonna die?” He answered yes. He goes on to elaborate and says that most of us, though, will die of something over than a newly emerged virus. This brings me to one of the main questions that the book asks, which is when will the Next Big One emerge? I really wanted an answer to this, but as I read deeper and deeper into the book, I realized that that wasn’t probable. No one can predict when the next pandemic is going to be. Like it says in the book, “ Too many factors vary randomly, or almost randomly, in that system.” Things happen in our life that we can’t predict. We don’t stay the same our whole lives. We grow and we change. The same is for pathogens. David Quammen says that “it all depends” and he couldn’t be more right. Multiple circumstance in life could happen and I, as well as the rest of the world, could be looking or participating in the Next Big