TWiV 377: Chicken with a side of Zika
This Week in Virology · Vincent Racaniello
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Show Notes
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVniks review the past week's findings on Zika virus and microcephaly, and reveal a chicken protein that provides insight on the restriction of transmission of avian influenza viruses to humans.
Links for this episode
- Larvicide not involved in microcephaly (CBS News)
- Obama seeks $1.8b for Zika virus (Guardian)
- Zika virus in Puerto Rico (MMWR)
- Zika virus in semen (EID)
- Zika virus in Indonesia (EID)
- Phylogeny of Zika virus (EID)
- Zika virus may cause mental disease (NYTimes)
- Zika virus from amniotic fluid (Lancet)
- Host protein underlies avian influenza host restriction (Nature)
- Wendy Barclay on TWiV 177
- Home to roost (Cell)
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiV 377
This episode is sponsored by 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium and Microbe Magazine Podcast
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