and when i was last, here i was heading into the o'keefe gnocchi swap with john crawford, john crawfish crawford, one of your cherished local teachers, naturalists and he is here this. afternoon, which delights me, john. and we were headed into the o'keefe and o'keefe for five days of canoeing around, and slipping on the platforms, it was a magazine assignment for me. i had a magazine writing career giving me a license to go to while places and see wild things, and right about them. i'm going to talk about this book, breathless, the scientific race to defeat a deadly virus. and what is in it. i also want to talk about how it came to be, how it took shape. that goes back -- well, it goes back 23 years, when i first got interested in dangerous viruses, emerging seemingly out of nowhere and getting into humans. that was originally by way of ebola. but more specifically, it began when i published the book, that nancy bunch, and spillover, in 2012. spillover subtitled animal infections and the next human pandemic was a book about the broader phenomenon of new diseases that are known as zoono