TWiV 305: Rhymes with shinola

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, and Kathy continue their coverage of the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, with a discussion of case fatality ratio, reproductive index, a conspiracy theory, and spread of the virus to the United States.

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This episode of TWiV is brought to you by the Department of Microbiology at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Links for this episode

• Science communications fellow at ASM
• Can we get AIDS from mosquito bites? (J La State Med Soc)
• Why mosquitoes cannot transmit AIDS
• Isolation of Bundibugyo ebolavirus in Uganda (PLoS Path)
• Ebola virus disease outbreak, Nigeria (MMWR)
• Nigeria contains Ebola virus outbreak (NY Times)
• First Ebola virus case in US (NY Times)
• Ebola virus disease: USA ex Liberia (ProMedMail)
• First imported Ebola virus case in US (CDC)
• Assessing risk of spread of Ebola virus (PLoS Currents)
• How contagious is Ebola virus? (NPR)
• Estimating reproductive index of Ebola virus (PLoS Currents)
• Polio-like illness, EV-D68 suspected (ProMedMail)
• Polio-like illness, North America (ProMedMail)
• Four deaths associated with EV-D68 (NY Times)
• Image credit: Pigott et al eLife
• Letters read on TWiV 305
• Video of this episode – view above or at YouTube

Weekly Science Picks

Alan – Under the knife, episode 1
Kathy – UCSC Ebola genome portal
Vincent – Annual Review of Virology, volume 1

Listener Pick of the Week

Alan – H5N1
Peter – Vomiting Larry
Dara – I just can’t wait for my vaccine!

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