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Professor, we know so many human illnesses have come from interaction with animals, do we need to rethink our interaction with the world, not just farming, our interaction with the world, not justfarming, and our interaction with the world, not just farming, and other wet markets, but what we eat, etc? is this not a massive wa ke—up but what we eat, etc? is this not a massive wake—up call?” but what we eat, etc? is this not a massive wake-up call? i think we really do and i think we need to realise that we are part of nature, nature is part of us, and we have to realise we are not invinc...

Wild, rabid dogs. >> medical experts developed a lot of odd ideas about how you would cure these. they used to believe that one way to stop rabies from killing you is 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 hang over treatment. >> the vaccine worked. >> most of the cases in the united states do come from bats but the risk is low. so, unless you see a bat behaving strangely, moving around during the day in a runny way, more than likely the bat won't be a risk to an

Decade and a half bat populations have been plummeting because of an outbreak they have been fighting of a disease called white nose syndrome. >> a fungus that grows on the bats when they hi ber nate in the winter time and unfortunately it affected on the order of a dozen different species and in some cases populations declined over 90%.an different species and in some cases populations declined over 90%. the fungus that causes the disease is identical to fungus that naturally occurs in europe. the thought is that it was brought over by people and accidentally introduced to bat caves. >> while...

Teeth. they lick the area to clean it. they make a little divot with their front teeth and they lick and they drink and they pee. it is completely creepy. >> a serial killer does that. >> vampire bats don't kill their victims but act like a mammal-sized parasite. >> i heard you say the weirdness of bats is interesting to you? >> it is a perfect example of that. take a bat with a weird flap ones it nose and you think that is just a strange looking adornment, a lot of bats have food in their mouths when they echo locate. they hum their echo location and that nose leaf, the weird flap points it w...

The official name became sars cov-2. it emerged in 2019. the new coronavirus was 96.2% similar to a sample taken from a horseshoe bat in 2013. so, what does that mean exactly? >> well, 96% is a different virus. the difference between us and chimps. it means sars cov-2 probably came from bats. >> wuhan is a thousand miles away from the southern subtropical regions where the coronaviruss have the greatest risk of jumping from animals to humans. >> most she had studied were in southern china and wuhan is in central china. when she first found out there was a coronavirus outbreak in wuhan she did ...