all right, sir, you are a microbiologist, a professor of human biology at standford.ts, also the founder and c.e.o. of global viral forecasting. an independent research institute devoted to early detection of like pandemic, right. >> exactly. >> stephen: okay, you've got a book here. it's called the viral storm, the dawn of a new pandemic age. why don't you flame it something a little more alarmist. like disease kill zone. a virus will turn your blood to dust before the end of this sentence. so where do you get where dow research these viruses. how do you collect them? >> yeah, i mean so, one of the ways to think about what we do is creating museums of virus and blood. >> stephen: kids, we're going to the virus museum. okay, yes. you are a museum of germs and blood. >> yeah. that's us. >> stephen: but how do you get them. >> so we are positioned in, along with colleagues in 20 countries around the world. >> stephen: what countries what are the big disease countries. >> well, it's interesting. we tend to work in places that are sort of hot spots of diversity because th