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Show Notes
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Guests: Carolyn Coyne, Helen Lazear, and Jeremy Luban
The TWiVziks present everything you want to know about Zika virus, including association of infection with microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome, transmission, epidemiology, and much more.
Links for this episode
- Zika outbreak in Brazil (EID) 13:40
- Zika summary (ProMedMail) 19:30
- Zika and microcephaly (MMWR) 27:30
- Facts about microcephaly (CDC)
- Brazil Ministry of Health microcephaly numbers
- Zika spread in Americas (MMWR)
- Deu Zica 42:30
- Microcephaly in Brazil (Lancet) 46:10
- GM mosquitoes did not start Zika outbreak (Discover) 1:31:30
- Debunking myths around Zika (Mad Virologist)
- Sexual transmission vs sexually transmissible (virology blog) 1:22:10
- CDC Zika travel guidance 1:15:45
- CDC on Zika and sex 1:17:10
- Image credit: Esper Kallas, University of Sao Paulo
- Letters read on TWiV 375
This episode is sponsored by 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium and ASM Grant Writing Webinar
Weekly Science Picks 1:50:45Alan - Jetstream Online School for WeatherVincent - New virus watercolors from Michele Banks (one, two)Rich - The Mad Virologist (Facebook, blog)Kathy - Orcas in AntarcticaJeremy - Pardis Sabeti on TEDHelen - Science ValentinesCarolyn - Three letter word missing from Zika warnings
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