michael wore the and beatrice hahn are the scientists who with their colleagues have done that work. there are these diseases. a spillover. they are zoonotic. one other slightly technical term by want to familiarize you with, reservoir host. the reservoir host is the kind of animal in which the bug, virus or whatever it is lives in chemically, permanently, in conspicuously, without causing disease, without causing mayhem in that particular creature. why does it live there? why does it live and on descriptively? probably because it is been in that species for millions of years and accommodation has evolved. a virus in its reservoir host replicates but it doesn't replicate cataclysmic we. it tends to replicate slowly and doesn't generally cause symptoms. it is invisible. it hides in its reservoir host and something happens, humans kill and eat that reservoir host, humans coming contact with it somehow. i will tell a couple stories how this can happen. reservoir host shed the virus and the virus gets into humans and becomes zoonotic. one of the things the scientists do as they study thi