TWiV 377: Chicken with a side of Zika

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVniks review the past week’s findings on Zika virus and microcephaly, and reveal a chicken protein that provides insight on the restriction of transmission of avian influenza viruses to humans.

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Links for this episode

• Larvicide not involved in microcephaly (CBS News) 9:35
• Obama seeks $1.8b for Zika virus (Guardian) 13:40
• Zika virus in Puerto Rico (MMWR) 22:20
• Zika virus in semen (EID) 26:10
• Zika virus in Indonesia (EID) 28:35
• Phylogeny of Zika virus (EID) 30:15
• Zika virus may cause mental disease (NYTimes) 32:35
• Zika virus from amniotic fluid (Lancet) 35:00
• Host protein underlies avian influenza host restriction (Nature) 40:40
• Wendy Barclay on TWiV 177 41:10
• Home to roost (Cell)
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiV 377 4:55, 1:07:05

This episode is sponsored by 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium and Microbe Magazine Podcast

Weekly Science Picks 1:17:15

Alan – CDC vaccine quiz
Dickson – A telescope so powerful
Vincent – Virology Lectures 2016 (virology blog, iTunes U)
Rich – Ion propulsion (Wiki)
Kathy – Spurious Correlations

Listener Pick

Johnye – Magellan telescope and van Egmond photograpy at Kids Should See This

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