Rabies - riding the wave to the Pacific coast - a podcast by MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research

In this episode, join Josie and Connor who talk with Drs Daniel Streicker and Julio Benavides about their work on preventing the spread of vampire bat rabies across Peru.

The 28th of September marked the 10th World Rabies Day, and this year's theme was "Rabies; Educate. Vaccinate. Eliminate." While most global efforts aimed at rabies control focus on spread by dogs and other carnivores, the Streicker lab working in the MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research, and the Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine at the University of Glasgow, are looking at how the rabies virus is transmitted from blood feeding vampire bats across Latin America.

Vampire bats are the major source of rabies in this region and Daniel and Julio hope that by studying closely how the virus interacts with these bats they can establish more effective strategies to prevent rabies transmission, which will aid global efforts to eradicate the virus as a public health concern.

If you liked this, read our blog post on the topic: http://wp.me/p5DCA6-fw

Image credit from Dr Julio Benavides.

Edited intro/outro music credit: 'Take me higher' by 'Jahzzar'. freemusicarchive.org/music/Jahzzar/…Me_Higher_1626 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).

Edited voiceover music credit: “Mountain Bells” by Lobo Loco from the album “Moments” http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Lobo_Loco/Moments_1950/Lobo_Loco_-_04_-_Mountain_Bells

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