Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
Vincent and Dickson discuss recent outbreaks of polio, west Nile and eastern equine encephalitis, Hendra, and norovirus.
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Links for this episode:
- Dickson was at Pop!Tech last week.
- Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon.
- US Geological Survey Disease Maps.
- CDC page on Hendra and Nipah viruses.
- The flying fox (Google image search).
- Vincent’s virology course.
- Vincent’s texbook is Principles of Virology, third edition, ASM Press (available December 2008).
- Episode transcript (pdf)
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