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Pathogens and fear: the double epidemics

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di Francesco Aiello, Michele Bellone, Giuseppe Nucera
Pubblicato il 28/10/2014Read time: 1 min
Global Health
Epidemiology
Infections

From bats to horses, from insects to chimpanzees, a lot of deadly viruses originated in an animal host. In his last book, Spillover, the American science writer David Quammen tells the stories of some of these viruses. We reached him at the Festival della Scienza in Genoa, where he was going to present the book, and asked him some questions.


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