# What vaccinating vampire bats can teach us about pandemics

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDMED 2018
- Speaker: Daniel Streicker
- Year: 2018
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/daniel_streicker_what_vaccinating_vampire_bats_can_teach_us_about_pandemics)
- 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)

Could we anticipate the next big disease outbreak, stopping a virus like Ebola before it ever strikes? In this talk about frontline scientific research, ecologist Daniel Streicker takes us to the Amazon rainforest in Peru where he tracks the movement of vampire bats in order to forecast and prevent rabies outbreaks. By studying these disease patterns, Streicker shows how we could learn to cut off the next pandemic at its source.

## Lectures

1. [What vaccinating vampire bats can teach us about pandemics](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/daniel_streicker_what_vaccinating_vampire_bats_can_teach_us_about_pandemics/cbb40edd3693), 16 min (TED's player)