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Making Sense Of 2020

TED Radio Hour

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Vaccine the Bats

Until now, scientists thought the andes mountains blocked rabies for moving from one side of Peru to the other. But a network of valley systems was not quite too tall for bats on either side to be mating with each other. This raises the key question, what are we going to do about that? And which brings us to step two of daniel's plan,. vaccinate the bats. We're using real wild bats, but fake vaccines. We use edible gells that make fat hair glow. That's letting us study how well a real vaccine might spread in these wild colonies of bats. Our results so far are incredibly encouraging. They're suggesting that, using the vaccines that we already

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