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They carry, and unfortunately, right now, it's very strange. we've probably got a bat virus that's killing people. ♪ good evening. i'm anderson cooper. when covid-19 first surfaced at the end of 2019, scientists around the world wanted to know where it came from and how this deadly virus ended up in humans. although answers are not certain, it seems likely the coronavirus originated in bats. bats are diverse and ancient creatures, and they've been on earth longer than we have. despite that, there is still a lot we don't know. tonight we take a look at this enigmatic animal and dig into the...

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 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. he'd been working on a vaccine for years and eventually decided to try it out on a young boy who had been bitten b...

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>> nancy simmons is the curator in charge of mammalogy at the american museum of natural history. >> why are bats nocturnal? >> well, the thought is that actually, the ancestors of all mammals were probably nocturnal. small animals sort of scurrying around in the age of dinosaurs. it gave them access to resources that other animals like dinosaurs couldn't use. so bats basically never gave up that lifestyle. whereas the ancestors of us, primates, at some point gave up the nocturnal lifestyle to be diurnal. >> but working at night, it helps the bats how? >> if you think about what the animals ar...

For many of us, when we think of bats, we think of one thing. rabies. the threat of that virus is often misunderstood. >> it's not very common for americans to get rabies. >> dylan george is a former white house adviser for biological threat defense. >> in any given year there's anywhere from zero to one to two people might get infected from rabies in bats or potentially from foxes or raccoons or skunks. >> rabies has actually been around for 2,000 years. for most of that time if you got it it was a death sentence. without treatment it's 99.99% deadly.