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Deadly. one of the big problems in europe and the u.s. used to be wild rabid dogs. >> ancient 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 rabbid dog and inset it into the bite wound which this was where the term hair of the dog came from. >> then along came louis pasture. he had been working on a vaccine for years and eventually tried to try on it a young boy who had been bitten by a rabid dog. the vaccine worked. >> most of the cases in the united states ...

Virus probably came from, it means sars covid 2 probably came from bats and probably southern china. >> wuhan is 1,000 miles away from the southern sub tropical regions of w the province where they have the greatest risk of jumping from animals to humans. >> most of the viruses had been in southern china and wuhan is in central china. when she first found out there was a coronavirus outbreak in wuhan, she did initially wonder, is there some chance that it could have come from her lab? >> the wuhan institute of virology is just a few miles from where many of the first cases were reported. >> th...

They lick the area to clean and it then they make a divot and they put their jaw in and they lick and drink and pee. it is completely creamy. who else does that? >> i'll tell you who else. a serial killer does that. however, vampire bats don't kill their victims. they just act like a mammal sized parasite. i've heard you say that the weirdness of bats was scientifically interesting to you. the faces of bats is a case of it. if you take a bat that has a weird animal on its nose. you think that's a strange looking adornment, it turns out a lot of bats have food in their mouth when's they're tryi...

In fact no north american bats are known to have covid-19. among bat researchers, there is a concern that humans will give covid-19 to bats. >> emerging infectious diseases can go both ways. we do know that some other animals can get covid-19. for instance, the tigers at the bronx zoo. >> for now, most research involving handling of bats across the u.s. has been put on hold because humans are potentially the bigger threat to bats. that's why td ameritrade designed a first-of-its-kind, personalized education center. their award-winning content is tailored to fit your investing goals and interes...

Viruses. >> this p-4 laboratory will majorly be used for research on highly pathogenic diseases for which there are currently no vaccines. >> flash forward to 2019 when the team in wuhan began to investigate the strange new virus. the genetic sequence of the virus was mapped fairly quickly. she compared it to a database of 500 coronaviruses previously identified by ecohealth alliances. there was a max. it became sars kv 2. the virus that calls covid-19. called covid-19 because it emerge in the 2019. it was 92% similar from a virus taken from a horseshoe bat in 2013. >> so what does that mean e...