The Elephant in the Room: How to Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals Sick by Kalaugher, Liz
The Elephant in the Room: How to Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals Sick by Kalaugher, Liz

The Elephant in the Room: How to Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals Sick

A healthier future starts with seeing the human causes of wildlife diseases. When new diseases spread, news...
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The Elephant in the Room: How to Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals Sick by Kalaugher, Liz

The Elephant in the Room: How to Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals Sick

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The Elephant in the Room: How to Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals Sick by Kalaugher, Liz

The Elephant in the Room: How to Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals Sick

$45.89
Author: Liz Kalaugher
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A healthier future starts with seeing the human causes of wildlife diseases.

When new diseases spread, news reports often focus on wildlife culprits--rodents, monkeys and mpox; bats and COVID-19; waterfowl and avian flu; or mosquitoes and Zika. But, in this urgent and engaging book, we see it often works the other way around--humans have caused diseases in other animals countless times, through travel and transport, the changes we impose on our environment, and global warming. With science journalist Liz Kalaugher as our guide, we meet the wildlife we have harmed and the experts now studying the crosscurrents between humans, other animals, and health.

Herds of buffalo in Kenya, cloned ferrets in Colorado, and frogs shipped worldwide as living pregnancy tests for humans, all help Kalaugher dive into the murky backstories behind wildlife epidemics past and present. We learn that military conflict likely contributed to the spread of rinderpest, or cattle plague, throughout Africa, devastating pastoral communities. That crowded poultry farms may create virulent new forms of bird flu that spill back into the wild. And that West Nile virus--which affects not only birds and humans, but other animals, including horses, skunks, and squirrels--is spreading as global temperatures rise.

Expanding today's discussions of environmental protection to include illness and its impact, Kalaugher both sounds the alarm and explores ways to stop the emergence and spread of wildlife diseases. These solutions start with a simple lesson: when we protect other animals, we protect ourselves.

Author: Liz Kalaugher
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 05/02/2025
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780226840901


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 04/01/2025 pg. 23
Choice 09/01/2025

About the Author
Liz Kalaugher is a science journalist and the coauthor of Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life. Her writing has appeared in BBC Focus magazine, the Guardian, New Scientist, and Physics World, among other outlets. She lives in Bristol, UK.
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