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Ep 126 | EcoHealth Alliance's Peter Daszak: Hero or Villain? | Matt Ridley | The Glenn Beck Podcast

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How Do You Hunt Down Viruses?

Virus hunters go to bat colonies, horseshoe bats. They collect droppings in test tubes and put them in liquid nitrogen at minus 80 degrees. And they then try to grow a live virus out of one of these samples. The wohan instu virology achieved this about five years ago for the first time. It's not easy to actually grow alive virus. But by using that technique, you're giving the varus a crash course in how to be infective with humans. Hengri has got much better at infecting human cells than I did as a reporter. i was unaware this kind of thing was going on but only found it out very recently. We have been

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