TWiV 387: Quaxxed

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

Guest: Nina Martin

Nina Martin joins the TWiV team to talk about the movie Vaxxed, her bout with dengue fever, and the latest research on Zika virus.

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Links for this episode

• Public Health United 7:30
• Fifty Shades of Science (TEDx) 7:50
• Parents convicted in death of toddler (Science Based Medicine) 51:25
• CDC: Zika virus causes microcephaly (NEJM) 56:20
• Dengue virus antibodies enhance Zika virus infection (biorXiv) 1:05:00
• Zika virus in Brazilian nonhuman primates (biorXiv) 1:00:30
• Zika virus IgM in CSF of microcephalic babies (Lancet) 1:10:20
• Brain organoids for modeling Zika virus infection (Cell) 1:12:10
• Letters read on TWiV 387 44:25

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Also brought to you by ASV 2016 1:18:50

Timestamps by Jennifer. Thanks!

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