Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiVocytes answer questions about Ebola virus, including mode of transmission, quarantine, incubation period, immunity, and much more.
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Links for this episode
- Guidelines for monitoring potentially infected persons (CDC)
- ASTMH meeting rejects attendees from Ebola countries (ScienceInsider)
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency call for Ebola virus proposals
- NSF calls for Ebola virus proposals
- Review of Ebola virus human-human transmission (CDC)
- How Firestone controlled Ebola virus (MMWR)
- Could Reston virus be a vaccine for Ebola virus? (virology blog)
- Letters read on TWiV 309
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I think the David Rees link should be as follows: http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/channel/going-deep-with-david-rees/
Great show! (The last TWiM was fantastic too.) I enjoy reading the full emails, but I’m definitely glad you just read excerpts. It might be worth keeping it that way in future shows, especially if the ebola email volume goes back up. 🙂
WT*, Seriously? People in Africa don’t wear condoms or have fridges?
Re: “People In Africa” – Africa is the second largest continent on earth and has a population over 1 billion. The primary uncontrolled outbreak is in 3 countries -Guinea, LIberia an Sierra Leone. They all have high poverty, poor agricultural yields (and thus nutrition issues), and decades of conflict/civil strife.
I think that one the best commentary on Ebola (fact & history) comes from “The Ebola questions” (Erika Check Hayden Nature, 29 October 2014)
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