All over the airwaves today was a bizarre story of rabies risk.  Bats have, according to the New York Times, taken over a dorm at Texas Southern University and in true college student fashion, authorities were alerted indirectly, via the internet.

Students posted the below video on YouTube and word of the infestation made it to the health department.  Kathy Barton, a spokeswoman for the city of Houston’s health department was quoted as saying ”When we saw the video, we knew we had a problem." Yeah, no doubt.  YouTube is changing the way we communicate and manage risks, posting something like this probably elicits a pretty quick response.