What Vaccinating Vampire Bats Can Teach Us About Pandemics
Offered By: TED via YouTube
Course Description
Overview
Explore groundbreaking research on disease prevention in this 16-minute TED Talk by ecologist Daniel Streicker. Delve into the Amazon rainforest of Peru to track vampire bat movements and learn how studying their patterns could help forecast and prevent rabies outbreaks. Discover the potential for anticipating and stopping major disease outbreaks before they occur, using insights from this frontline scientific work. Gain valuable knowledge about cutting off future pandemics at their source and understand the broader implications for global health and disease control strategies.
Syllabus
What vaccinating vampire bats can teach us about pandemics | Daniel Streicker
Taught by
TED
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