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In north america alone there are 46 different species of bats.

World to pursue and achieve your own dreams. >> announcer: the following is a cnn special report. bats throughout human history seem to have this image as evil, dark and dangerous. they seem to have got this bad impression in our cultures. theres definitely something odd about them. but just because theyre odd doesnt mean theyre bad. bats are actually quite fascinating animals. the more you get to know them, the more fascinating they are. the more social creatures you see them become. and some...

World to pursue and achieve your own dreams. >> announcer: the following is a cnn special report. bats throughout human history seem to have this image as evil, dark and dangerous. they seem to have got this bad impression in our cultures. theres definitely something odd about them. but just because theyre odd doesnt mean theyre bad. bats are actually quite fascinating animals. the more you get to know them, the more fascinating they are. the more social creatures you see them become. and some...

He never compromised. >> the kingdom of heaven is at hand! >> and we see jesus in the same way even unto death. >> in mobilizing his followers to repent and turn towards god -- >> im not afraid of you! >> -- john the baptist had dared to speak truth unto power, and for this he pays the ultimate price. >> i think he understood that he was a martyr. he was a martyr in the cause of something greater. he was a martyr in the cause of a beautiful kingdom of god on earth, which is what he had preached ...

He has worked closely with the wuhan institute of virology and dr. shi. their collaboration was crucial in discovering the origin of the 2003 sars outbreak. the world health organization assembled a team. including daszak, shi, and wang, considered one of the worlds top emerging disease experts to find the source of the deadly outbreak. these virus hunters were pursuing a theory that bats could be the origin of sars. the team headed to the region in southern china, yunan, to try and solve the my...

To carry a higher proportion of viruses that have the ability to infect people. the question is really, why do we see some of these incredibly bad viruses coming out of bats? >> it was 7:00 p.m. on december 30th, 2019, when a package arrived at the wuhan institute of virology. in it, medical samples from an infectious disease hospital. several patients there were suffering from atypical pneumonia. doctors suspected a possible novel coronavirus. dr. xi zhenglis cell phone rang shortly thereafter....

>> and the signal to all sorts of cells that have not become infected, a virus is here. turn on your defense system. >> and typically this manifests in inflammation. >> the in humans inflammation helps fight fever. too long, it can do more harm than good. it can even cause death. >> typically more than half the damage that results in disease tends to be the damage of the immune system attacking the disease itself. >> thats how the disease stops. >> but bats immune systems dont respond the same w...

>> 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...

>> 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...