Loss of India’s vultures may have led to deaths of half a million people

Harris Professor Eyal Frank's work researching the impact of declining vulture population in India on human mortality was news in Science.

To uncover the impact of all of this on humans, Sudarshan and co-author Eyal Frank, an environmental economist at the University of Chicago, overlayed maps of vulture habitats onto those of Indian administrative districts. The team looked at health records for more than 600 districts, controlling for water quality, weather, and number of hospitals.

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