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Impenetrable forest . We found rugged terrain, mountain gorillas and caves full of bats. All of which contain clues for this team of virus hunters searching for the next deadly pathogen capable of starting the next pandemic. It seems like a really daunting task for you to find pathogens before they find us. Its definitely achievable. Take a listen as we did to Sona Jobarteh as she plays the kora. With its 21 strings played by just four fingers, two on each hand, it has a sound both foreign and f...

In the green tree canopies of forested areas in Myanmar, you might wake up to the sounds of gibbons singing love songs. Gibbons start their day with passionate duets and, though these love songs may sound a little different than the ones in your playlists, they just helped researchers figure out that Myanmar has the largest population of an endangered gibbon species on Earth. They're called skywalker gibbons, and until recently, scientists thought there were fewer than 200 of them – all l...

These endangered primates live in Myanmar and China.

Bill Whitaker reports from Uganda's Impenetrable Forest, where scientists are trying to find the next deadly virus before it finds us.

A virus previously found only in bats was detected in the antibodies of people screened for exposure to sarbecoviruses between 2017 and 2020 in rural Myanmar in Southeast Asia, according to a study from the University of California, Davis and collaborators in Myanmar and Singapore. The work is published in the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Bill Whitaker reports from Uganda's Impenetrable Forest, where scientists are trying to find the next deadly virus before it finds us.