Very interesting long piece in the NYTimes today with that title. The co-authors, a cardiologist and a writer, look at the diseases which animals get, which (human) animals get. (They repeat a joke among vets: "What do you call a physician? A veterinarian who treats only one species.)
The whole piece is amazing, though obvious, or maybe amazing because obvious, at least once you think about it. Another reminder of how easy it is for us to fall into tribalism, in this case dividing ourselves from the rest of the animal kingdom.
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