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TWiV 283: No Reston for the weary


Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Jens H. Kuhn

Jens speaks with the TWiV team about filoviruses, including the recent Ebola virus outbreak in Guinea.

Links for this episode
  • Review of Zanamavir clinical trials (Brit Med J)
  • Ebola virus disease in Guinea (NEJM)
  • Filovirus nomenclature (virology blog)
  • Ebola virus disease, West Africa (ProMedMail)
  • How lethal are ebolaviruses? (virology blog)
  • Letters read on TWiV 283
Weekly Science Picks

Alan - AMNH digital special collections
Vincent - 
Viral entry into host cells (Stefan Pöhlmann PhD, Graham Simmons PhD, eds)
Kathy - Papilloma song lyrics (pdf)
Jens - The Logic of Chance by Eugene V. Koonin

Listener Pick of the Week

Joe - Poor showing of 2012 influenza vaccine (Nature)
Phil - Emerging disease or emerging diagnosis? (YouTube)

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 May 4, 2014  1h50m