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

by Liz Kalaugher

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226840905
• ISBN13: 9780226840901
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.