Mr. QUAMMEN: Well the first thing I learned is that cancer is an evolving disease.
Quammen says while there may be many explanations, certainly the lady mosquito deserves credit.
Mr. QUAMMEN: Well, as far as I'm concerned, the first reason is that it helps us understand cancer better.
Mr. QUAMMEN: Contagious could be any situation in which the cancer cells from one person are passed to another.
David Quammen wrote the article "Contagious Cancer: The Evolution of a Killer" for the April issue of Harper's Magazine.
Quammen describes what happens when a meticulous, shy, socially conservative man comes up with a revolutionary, new, dangerous idea.
These stories come from a short, elegant study just published by W.W. Norton, The Reluctant Mr. Darwin by David Quammen.
David Quammen, an American science journalist, picks up the story of contemporary blights, exploring how the next pandemic will be detected.
Mr Quammen is a lively writer and a good detective, tracing diseases from their first appearance back to their origins in some cases, still unsettled.
Mr Quammen analyses individual diseases, searching for patterns in their outbreaks.
Mr. QUAMMEN: Well, I had heard about the disease and since 1996, it's been sweeping across the island, killing what seemed to be thousands of Tasmanian devils.
Mr Quammen traces the various strains of HIV back to the beginning of the 20th century, when the virus is likely to have moved from a chimpanzee into a human.
We wanted to go to Tasmania to check this out, but when we found out science reporter and author David Quammen had already been there, we decided to rip it from the headlines.
Mr. QUAMMEN: We're very far from that, I think the real point is understanding cancer better, understanding the biology of cancer, and that will, I hope, ultimately, make it a less lonely disease and a more treatable one.
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