by Animals & Society Institute | May 25, 2021 | COVID-19, Human-Animal Studies, New Research
May 2021 Photo Credit: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Media. Pangolin tails for sale in Johannesburg, South Africa. With a year of hindsight, we all know more about the causes of the COVID-19 pandemic and zoonotic diseases in general. The nodes of human-animal... 
by Animals & Society Institute | Apr 30, 2021 | COVID-19, Human-Animal Studies, New Research
April 2021 Photo Credit: Mark Stebnicki from Pexels We’ve all seen them, the photos of the killing floors. Some of us may avoid looking, fearing the nightmares they induce. Others steel themselves to bear witness to the trauma and deaths. Still others immerse... 
by Animals & Society Institute | Mar 27, 2021 | COVID-19, Human-Animal Studies, New Research
March 2021 Photo Credit: Steve Hinshaw, “Bos taurus (aurochs)” licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. As we begin, slowly, to edge our way out of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have a much clearer picture of the intersections between zoonotic diseases, climate change,... 
by Animals & Society Institute | Feb 25, 2021 | COVID-19, Human-Animal Studies, New Research
February 2021 Photo Credit: “Giving Tree: Help provide the Zoo’s animals with great enrichment items” by Smithsonian’s National Zoo is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Despite precautions that were taken, in early January 2021 the first of three... 
by Animals & Society Institute | Jan 27, 2021 | COVID-19, Human-Animal Studies, New Research
January 2021 “Flu Vaccination Grippe” by Daniel Paquet is licensed under CC BY 2.0 Vaccines for the coronavirus—to date all tested on nonhuman animals—have made their way into distribution. This has prompted both hope for a brighter 2021, and a quandary... 
by Animals & Society Institute | Jan 5, 2021 | COVID-19, Human-Animal Studies, New Research
December 2020 Photo credit: Oslo, a Belgian Malinois Shepherd, one of the COVID-19 detection dogs used in the study, Detection dogs as a help in the detection of COVID-19 Can the dog alert on COVID-19 positive persons by sniffing axillary sweat samples ?... 