Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Vincent and Dickson launch a new science podcast with a description of the emergence and spread of West Nile virus in the United States.

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Links for this episode:

• Buy “West Nile Story” by Dickson Despommier.
• ProMed Mail. The global reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious disease.
• PubMed. A service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.
• West Nile page at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Great maps of where the virus has been found.
• Episode transcript (download pdf)

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