TWiV 302: The sky is falling
This Week in Virology
English - September 14, 2014 14:44 - 1 hour - 77.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 187 ratingsLife Sciences Science Natural Sciences viral disease infection infectious microbiology virology virus Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVers discuss the growing Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, and an epidemic of respiratory disease in the US caused by enterovirus D68.
Links for this episode
Cancer patient saved by measles virus
Ebola virus genome sequences (Science)
Robert Garry on Ebola outbreak
Aerosol transmission
WHO Ebola outbreak summary
CDC Ebola outbreak page
Ebola outbreak epi curve
CED Ebola outbreak info graphic
Ebola response roadmap (CDC)
Ebola outbreak discussion at ICAAC
Human trial of Ebola virus vaccine (CNN)
Chimpanzee adenovirus vectored Ebola virus vaccine (Nat Med)
How US Ebola patients were cured (Sci Amer)
Ebola outbreak could affect 20,000 (NY Times)
Ebola infection control resources
NLM free access to Ebola papers
Science Ebola papers open access
Gates donates money for Ebola outbreak (Wash Post)
Smuggled bushmeat? (Newsweek)
What we are not afraid to say about Ebola (NY Times)
Enterovirus D68 outbreak (MMWR)
Mark Pallansch on EV-D68 (NPR)
Enterovirus D68 (CDC)
EV-D68 isolation 1962 (Am J Ep)
Outbreak of enterovirus 68 (virology blog)
Letters read on TWiV 302
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