TWiV 153: Rabid reindeer and protective prions

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, and Rich review an outbreak of rabies in arctic foxes and reindeer in Norway, and a prion that makes you go antiviral.

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Links for this episode:

• Goodbye Dennis Ritchie (boingboing)
• Rabies in Svalbard (Eurosurveillance)
• Where is Longyearbyen? (Google maps)
• Svalbard global seed vault (Wikipedia)
• WHO map of rabies prevalence (pdf)
• US rabies surveillance, 2010
• A prion-like aggregate in innate immunity (Cell)
• Virology lectures on prions (#24) and virus entry (#5)
• Susan Lindquist on prions at FiB (#77, #57)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 153

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