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They seem to have got this bad impression in our cultures. there is definitely something odd about them. but just because they're odd doesn't mean they're bad. they are 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 of them are really beautiful. but bats do carry the viruses they carry and unfortunately, right now, it is very strange, we've probably got a bat virus that's killing people. good evening. i'm anderson cooper.

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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 ...

Bats. >> despite the millions of bats in bracken cave, in north america, over the last decade and a half, bat populations have been plummeting all because of an outbreak they've been fighting of a disease called white nose syndrome. >> it is a cold loving fungus when they're hibernating in the winter time. this has affected in the order of a dozen different species of north american bats. in some cases, populations have declined over 90%. >> that's huge. >> yes. it is a terrible let the to bats and ironically, it is a disease that we brought to bats. the fungus that cause this is disease is id...

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...