# Why bats don't get sick

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED-Ed
- Speaker: Arinjay Banerjee
- Year: 2021
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Medicine and health, Teaching and learning
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/arinjay_banerjee_why_bats_don_t_get_sick)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Consider a bat that is infected with several deadly viruses, including ones that cause rabies, SARS, and Ebola. While this diagnosis would be lethal for other mammals, the winged wonder is totally unfazed, and may even spend the next 30 years living as if this were totally normal— because for bats, it is. So what's protecting bats from these dangerous infections? Arinjay Banerjee investigates. \[Directed by Cabong Studios, narrated by Adrian Dannatt, music by Júlio Muzzi and Astrolábio Studio\].

## Lectures

1. [Why bats don't get sick](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/arinjay_banerjee_why_bats_don_t_get_sick/430187192886), 6 min (TED's player)