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David Quammen

David Quammen is the author of eighteen books, including Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, The Song of the Dodo, and The Tangled Tree. (May 2023)

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The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator

by Timothy C. Winegard

December 5, 2019 issue

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