
Please don't kill the bats! (Ep 5 Re-release)
Big Biology
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The Bad Guys and the Good Guys
There are certain places in the world where maybe statistically you might be more likely to come into contact with something that's bad for you. Southeast Asia, for example, is sort of lit up on the map in terms of how many zonosies have emerged from that region and how many animal species we know of right now to carry zoonotic diseases. And then rodents have sort of been an age old. They have a bad rap for carrying lots of diseases. I mean, there's over 2,200 species of rodents.
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