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To combat misinformation and confusion, Jones assembled this hand-illustrated guidebook, full of clarifying notes and simple but charming artwork...features hand-drawn sketches, accompanied by an array of in-the-margins notes that recall Randall Munroe's popular webcomic xkcd...An expansive and informative epidemiological look at viruses. - Kirkus Reviews The Hidden Zoo...is Allen Jones's fascinating, funny illustrated guide to microscopic organisms and the problems they can create. Written by a medical doctor and prompted by COVID-19, the book aims to explain the main microscopic players in pandemics... Stuffed with an incredible amount of information, every page is enlightening. - Peter Dabbene, Foreword Reviews ...an odd, charmingly quirky book that draws on the author's medical expertise and his artistic talents, plus his amiable sense of humour, to deliver an impressive amount of information for lay readers. ...imagine a graphic novel like Maus meeting Gray's Anatomy. This is an example of what effective public health education should look like, and too rarely does...Sound information and amiable good sense are welcome in times like these and The Hidden Zoo delivers both. Highly recommended. - Vancouver Sun It's rare for a book about infections to appeal equally to the lay public as well as healthcare professionals. Allen Jones, M.D., of Vancouver accomplishes this with The Hidden Zoo Inside You - BC Bookworld

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A citizen of both the US and Canada, Allen Jones received a B.Sc. in zoology from Brandon University, Manitoba and an M.Sc. in neuroscience from the University of Manitoba, then a M.D. from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He completed his internship as a primary care physician at McMaster University in Hamilton. This was followed by ten months of emergency medicine training including electives in toxicology at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, trauma at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, and aerospace medicine at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. Subsequently, he became certifed in addiction medicine, his current area of practice. Concurrently, he is a surgical assistant for procedures in orthopedic surgery, plastic surgery, and general surgery. Dr. Jones started writing and drawing The Hidden Zoo Inside You during the pandemic after realizing the extent of misinformation regarding the coronavirus and was further motivated by his passion for explaining and demystifying the language of medicine to his patients. When not working on his book or with his patients, he enjoys rock climbing and traveling. He currently lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada. A citizen of both the US and Canada, Allen Jones received a B.Sc. in zoology from Brandon University, Manitoba and an M.Sc. in neuroscience from the University of Manitoba, then a M.D. from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He completed his internship as a primary care physician at McMaster University in Hamilton. This was followed by ten months of emergency medicine training including electives in toxicology at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, trauma at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, and aerospace medicine at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. Subsequently, he became certifed in addiction medicine, his current area of practice. Concurrently, he is a surgical assistant for procedures in orthopedic surgery, plastic surgery, and general surgery. Dr. Jones started writing and drawing The Hidden Zoo Inside You during the pandemic after realizing the extent of misinformation regarding the coronavirus and was further motivated by his passion for explaining and demystifying the language of medicine to his patients. When not working on his book or with his patients, he enjoys rock climbing and traveling. He currently lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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