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I know, reading a book about zoonosis during the COVID-19 pandemia is quite banal, but in my defense, I had Spillover on my to-read list since 2013, so it was just a case of finding the right occasion. It's, quite simply, one of the best popular science book I've ever read, and probably the best written. Quammen's prose is terse, clear and engaging, and he has that rarest of gifts, of making even the most abstruse scientific and medical concepts understandble without sacrificing exactitude. As for the content: Spillover is both terrifying and uplifting, often in the same page. Terrifying because it makes you realize how extremely fragile and how unbelievably vulnerable we homo sapiens still are in the face of disease (as the current pandemia is more than amply showing); uplifting because its pages are filled with meetings and discussions with remarkable doctors, researchers and scientists, the front lines of a war we probably