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One of the big problems in europe and the u.s. used to be wild rabid dogs. >> ancient, you know, medical experts developed a lot of odd ideas about how you would cure rabies. they used to believe that one way to stop rabies from killing you was to take a hair from the tail of the rabid dog and insert it into the bite wound, and this is the origin of the phrase "hair of the dog" which we talk about in the context of hangover treatment. >> then along came louis pasteur in the mid 19th century. hed...

With these sort of armchair solutions. like maybe its because they fly and when they fly, their body temperature gets a little higher and thats like a fever and that gives them the ability to handle more kinds of viruses than other animals would. >> dan riskin is a biologist and tv host who did his ph.d. work on bats. >> when the virus gets into a human and a human responds by producing a fever, which is really effective against a lot of viruses, it just doesnt work on those bat ones because the...

>> reporter: omar jimenez, cnn, chicago. >> omar, thank you so much for that. a programming note for all of you. you can say good-bye to 2020 finally and hello to 2021 with anderson cooper and andy cohen live from times square new years eve starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. thank you so much for joining me. im kate bolduan. happy new year. merry christmas. the cnn special "bats: the mystery behind covid" starts now. >> announcer: the following is a cnn special report. bats throughout human...

>> reporter: omar jimenez, cnn, chicago. >> omar, thank you so much for that. a programming note for all of you. you can say good-bye to 2020 finally and hello to 2021 with anderson cooper and andy cohen live from times square new years eve starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. thank you so much for joining me. im kate bolduan. happy new year. merry christmas. the cnn special "bats: the mystery behind covid" starts now. >> announcer: the following is a cnn special report. bats throughout human...

Coronavirus originated in bats. bats are diverse and ancient creatures and theyve been on earth longer than we have. despite that, there is still a lot we dont know. tonight we take a look at this enigmatic animal and dig into the mystery of covid-19. in the last 20 years some of the deadliest virus outbreaks have come from bats. sars, marburg, ebola. so what is it about these creatures and the way they spread pathogens that can be so dangerous? >> the fact that bats are carrying viruses is not ...

>> the same adaptation also carries virus. >> it doesnt appear to get sick or very sick when theyre carrying viruses that can be deadly in other people and animals. >> so, could studying bat immunology help us humans create possible treatments to fight this current and future pandemic? >> what do you think is the greatest challenge in term of finding a treatment or cure for these virus? >> to my mind, the greatest challenge, the number of unknown viruses that are out there. we think there are ab...

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Miles from wuhan, researchers in berkeley california are looking to bats to find clues to help fight coronaviruses like covid-19. >> in a way theres a lot we can learn from bats. this group of animals has been around for millions of years. how can we look at their history with viruses and take that knowledge and think about therapeutics and treatments for ourselves? >> what is it about bats that allows some of them to host these viruses without showing any illness? >> thats the question that kar...