PhD student Haris Malik from the Streicker Lab discusses work in the lab exploring the use of self-spreading vaccines in vampire bats.

In Latin America, rabies transmitted via bats is a huge problem for humans health and the livestock industry. Vaccines exist for other wildlife such as dogs however, bats are naturally elusive and it is hard to access the colonies. A potential resolution is the use of self-spreading vaccines, which have transmission capacity to spread to other animals in the population.

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