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

From the twiVivants, follow up on FluMist and Zoster vaccines, Zika virus update, and isolation of a multicomponent animal virus from mosquitoes.

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• FluMist problem (FDA) 10:50
• DA Henderson obituary (NY Times) 27:00
• DA Henderson, smallpox eradicator (TWiV Special) 27:15
• Efficacy of VZV vaccine(Ther Adv Vaccines) 45:00
• Zika virus burden, Puerto Rico (JAMA) 49:15
• Zika virus in Miami Beach(STAT) 49:05
• Congenital brain anomaliesand Zika virus (Radiology) 50:30
• Congenital Zika syndrome with arthrogryposis (BMJ) 56:15
• Multicomponent animal virus from mosquitoes (Cell Host Microbe) 1:01:35
• Breaking rules of infection (NPR) 1:01:10
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiV 404 18:55, 1:27:45

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