From cave to clinic: Bat research in a post-pandemic world

Cara Brook, assistant professor of Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley, is using her expertise in disease ecology to study viruses carried by fruit bats and what they can teach us about preventing future pandemics. Dr. Brook discusses her fieldwork in Madagascar, where her team investigates how viruses are maintained in wild bat hosts and what environmental pressures might lead them to spill over into human populations. Read more about the fascinating story here.