How does the loss of vultures lead to 500,000+ people dying?

Anthropocene magazine wrote a piece about Harris Prof. Eyal Frank's contribution to research showing a correlation between India's diminishing vulture population and human mortality. 

While there is widespread concern about the growing number of species threatened by extinction, it’s often difficult to calculate the loss in terms of human lives or dollars, measurements that can carry extra weight with policymakers. But quantifying costs is the specialty of economists like Sudarshan and his collaborator, the University of Chicago’s Eyal Frank.

Read the full piece here: https://www.anthropocenemagazine.org/2024/08/how-does-the-loss-of-vultures-lead-to-500000-people-dying/