“ Later in conversation he corrected himself: It was in fact 1.1 million pigs. The difference might seem like just a rounding error, he told me, but if you ever had to kill an extra hundred thousand pig… David Quammen
“ The first rule of a successful parasite? Myxoma’s success in Australia suggests something different from that nugget of conventional wisdom I mentioned above. It’s not Don’t kill your host. It’s Don’t… David Quammen
“ From the ecological point of view an outbreak can be defined as an explosive increase in the abundance of a particular species that occurs over a relatively short period of time. Then, in the same bla… David Quammen
“ There’s a voice that says: So what?It’s not my voice, it’s probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the arenas of public opinion, querulous and smug and fortified by just a little knowledge, w… David Quammen
“ Als de hemel donker wordt met zwarte donderwolken, de grote bomen zwaaien in de wind, de pauwen zingen, hunker ik ernaar terug te rennen naar Gir. David Quammen
“ With influenza and many other diseases the order is reversed, high infectivity preceding symptoms by a matter of days. A perverse pattern: the danger, then the warning. That probably helped account fo… David Quammen
“ Saying no to the inevitable is one of the few precious ways our own species redeems itself from oblivion- or at least tries to. David Quammen
“ Lyme disease, psittacosis, Q fever: These three differ wildly in their particulars but share two traits in common. They are all zoonotic and they are all bacterial. They stand as reminders that not ev… David Quammen
“ A plate of Ebola virions mixed with Hendra virions would resemble capellini in a light sauce of capers. David Quammen
“ SIR model, representing a flow of individuals, during the course of an outbreak, through those three classes I mentioned earlier: from susceptible (S) to infected (I) to recovered (R). Anderson David Quammen
“ A high jeopardy of extinction comes with territory. Islands are where species go to die. David Quammen
“ It wasn’t a petty squabble. It was a big squabble, in which pettiness played no small part. David Quammen
