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TWiV 335: Ebola lite

  • May 3, 2015
  • Tagged as: aerosol, airborne, ebolavirus, evolution, funding, going aerosol, grants, mutation, NIH, Osterholm, research, transmission, Vaccine, viral, virology, virus, VP30

The TWiVumvirate discusses a whole Ebolavirus vaccine that protects primates, the finding that Ebolavirus is not undergoing rapid evolution, and a proposal to increase the pool of life science researchers by cutting money and time from grants.

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TWiV 307: Ebola aetiology

  • October 19, 2014
  • Tagged as: aerosol, air travel, airborne, antiviral drug, Dallas patient, dog, Ebola, ebolavirus, fever detector, fomite, Guinea, hemorrhagic fever, infectivity, Liberia, Sierra Leone, transmission, viral, virology, virus, West Africa

Tara Smith joins the TWiEBOVsters to discuss the Ebola virus outbreak in west Africa, spread of the disease to and within the US, transmission of the virus, and much more.

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TWiV 306: This Week in Ebolavirus

  • October 12, 2014
  • Tagged as: aerosol, air travel, airborne, antiviral drug, Dallas patient, dog, Ebola, ebolavirus, fever detector, fomite, Guinea, hemorrhagic fever, infectivity, Liberia, Sierra Leone, transmission, viral, virology, virus, West Africa

The Grand Masters of the TWiV discuss Ebola virus transmission, air travel from West Africa, Ebola virus infectivity on surfaces, the Dallas Ebola virus patient, and Ebola virus in dogs.

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TWiV 304: Given X, solve for EBOV

  • September 28, 2014
  • Tagged as: aerosol, airborne, ebola virus, ebolavirus, epidemic, epidemiology, forecast, incubation period, outbreak, prediction, transmission, viral, virology, virus, West Africa

The TWiV team consults an epidemiologist to forecast the future scope of the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa.

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TWiV 303: Borna this way

  • September 21, 2014
  • Tagged as: aerosol, airborne, Borna disease virus, Ebola, ebolavirus, endogenous viral DNA, gain of function, negative strand, pandemic, replication, thirteen lined ground squirrel, transmission, viral, virology, virus

The TWiV team discusses transmission of Ebola virus, and inhibition of Borna disease virus replication by viral DNA in the ground squirrel genome.

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TWiV 190: The second ferret of the Apocalypse

  • July 1, 2012
  • Tagged as: aerosol, airborne, ferret, fouchier, H5N1, influenza, mutation, NSABB, pandemic, selection, transmission, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Alan, and Kathy review selection of influenza H5N1 viruses that can transmit among ferrets by aerosol.

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