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 ?... 
by Animals & Society Institute | Nov 25, 2020 | COVID-19, Human-Animal Studies, New Research
November 2020 Photo credit: American mink. Ryzhkov Sergey, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons The understanding that viruses spread reciprocally from humans to domesticated animals and vice versa is of course not new. Zoonotic diseases such as bird and swine... 
by Animals & Society Institute | Oct 29, 2020 | COVID-19, Human-Animal Studies, New Research
October 2020 Photo: Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals The novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) shows no sign of letting up soon. As the northern hemisphere moves into colder weather, an uptick in cases is materializing. Right now, much attention is focused on finding ways to... 