Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
Guests: Carolyn Coyne, Helen Lazear, and Jeremy Luban
The TWiVziks present everything you want to know about Zika virus, including association of infection with microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome, transmission, epidemiology, and much more.
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- Zika outbreak in Brazil (EID) 13:40
- Zika summary (ProMedMail) 19:30
- Zika and microcephaly (MMWR) 27:30
- Facts about microcephaly (CDC)
- Brazil Ministry of Health microcephaly numbers
- Zika spread in Americas (MMWR)
- Deu Zica 42:30
- Microcephaly in Brazil (Lancet) 46:10
- GM mosquitoes did not start Zika outbreak (Discover) 1:31:30
- Debunking myths around Zika (Mad Virologist)
- Sexual transmission vs sexually transmissible (virology blog) 1:22:10
- CDC Zika travel guidance 1:15:45
- CDC on Zika and sex 1:17:10
- Image credit: Esper Kallas, University of Sao Paulo
- Letters read on TWiV 375
This episode is sponsored by 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium and ASM Grant Writing Webinar 7:50, 1:49:50
Weekly Science Picks 1:50:45
Alan – Jetstream Online School for Weather
Vincent – New virus watercolors from Michele Banks (one, two)
Rich – The Mad Virologist (Facebook, blog)
Kathy – Orcas in Antarctica
Jeremy – Pardis Sabeti on TED
Helen – Science Valentines
Carolyn – Three letter word missing from Zika warnings
Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv
Photos below from Esper Kallas, University of Sao Paulo, mentioned in this episode.
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Fantastic episode! The Twiv-zers were really on the hunt. I found the review of TORCH really helpful. One thing, for some reason, that continued to pop in my mind is the fact that skin is the largest human organ. Your skin can provide a lot of protection in prevention of infection.
I hope all is well,
Alex
I continue to appreciate so very much the work you all do, and will look to you for coverage of ZikV. I just wanted to make the following suggestions for guests who might be very interesting while also broadening the perspectives you present:
1. Mike Busch MD, PhD – from BSRI in San Francisco – expert on transfusion-transmitted infections
2. Lyle Petersen – Head of the Division of Vector-borne Diseases at CDC
3. Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Risk decision making under uncertainty (author of Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Anti-fragile)
Many thanks and very best wishes,