episode 624: Bats and coronaviruses with Peter Daszak
Peter Daszak joins TWiV to explain the work of EcoHealth Alliance in surveillance of bats in China for SARS-related coronaviruses to provide the information needed to prevent future pandemics, and why NIH recently withdrew financial support for their work.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker
Guest: Peter Daszak
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Links for this episode
- Bats are reservoirs of SARSr-CoV (Science)
- Bat SARSr-CoV that binds ACE2 (Nature)
- Rich gene pool of bat SARSr-CoV (PLoS Path)
- Bat SARSr-CoV infect humans (Virol Sin)
- Transmission of bat SARSr-CoV in China (bioRxiv)
- Global Virome Project (Science)
- ASV Virtual Workshops 2020
- Image credit
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees
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