Dr Peta Hitchens
Senior Research Fellow, Veterinary Epidemiologist, Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Sciences & Technology
I’m an animal … get me out of here!
Despite recent on-screen incidents, Australia doesn’t have national legislation governing animal welfare in film and television, so how can we protect the animals that entertain us?
Health & Medicine
Don’t blame the pangolin (or any other animal) for COVID-19
A new analysis of 139 instances where an animal virus has spread to humans shows these outbreaks are a human problem with a human cause