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

Kalaugher, Liz

 
9781837731381: The Elephant in the Room: How to Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals Sick
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1837731381 ISBN 13: 9781837731381
Verlag: Icon Books, 2025

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*A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE DAY*

Humans, animals and disease. They're all inter-related, so why do we keep ignoring the elephant in the room?

It's well known that Covid-19 may have come from a bat, but diseases are often transmitted in the other direction too. Humans have passed diseases to animals countless times through history, and it's the cross-currents of this relationship between humans, animals and disease that are explored by Liz Kalaugher in The Elephant in the Room.

Taking the reader on a globe-trotting journey through time, Kalaugher presents a series of fascinating case histories of human-related wildlife diseases. Among the stories featured here are the early humans who may have carried pathogens responsible for the extinction of Neanderthals, the native birds of Hawaii that have been devasted by human-introduced disease, and the Tasmanian tiger that has been lost to the sands of time.

Examining these tales and drawing on first-hand accounts from experts around the world, The Elephant in the Room is both a tragic history and an inspirational call to arms. It doesn't have to be this way. By learning from the past, it's possible to create a better, healthier environment for ourselves, our wildlife and our planet.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Liz Kalaugher is a science journalist and campaigner, based in Bristol, who has written for the New Scientist, BBC Wildlife, the Guardian, BBC News and more, as well as winning science journalism fellowships from the World Federation of Science Journalists and the European Geosciences Union. She is also the co-author of Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life.

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Verlag
Icon Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1837731381
ISBN 13 
9781837731381
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Anzahl der Seiten
352
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