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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...

>> in an ecosystem, what role do bats have? >> yes. they're a really critical, key component. for instance, insect eating bats, because they consume so many insects, they play a large role in controlling insect bomb lagss. >> a normal size bat can eat up to 500 to 1,000 mosquitos in an hour that might be carrying diseases like zika or malaria. if you're in an area where there are a lot of bats at night, you should be thankful for those bats. >> exactly. >> and that trags lats into big money for agriculture. the mexican free tail bat eat huge numbers of moths, protecting the corn crops of the r...

All the same ecological roles that birds do, only they do it at night. >> bats are unique mammals. though structurally in some ways they're similar to humans. >> so bats have four limbs. two of them are taxed to the wings. >> two of them are the wings. yes. they have all the same bones. the upper article, the forearms, the wrist bones, and then the bones that support the end of the wing are long finger and hand bones. >> bats' living and eating habits vary widely across the 4121 species that exist. there are some that ooms roost in trees, others you understand leaves, some in caves. some bats ...

>> it really took better part of eight years of consistent and persistent sampling, testing different populations around until we finally found the missing link we were looking for. >> that link was a bat virus gent genetically connected to sars. >> that was the nail in the coffin. >> the doctor told us bat-borne coronavirus there's cause more outbreaks. we need to find them before they find us. >> that original sars coronavirus in 2003 started in china. it spread to hong kong, taiwan and then the rest of the world causing 8,000 cases and 800 deaths. >> that same year, the chinese government a...