Peter Daszak joins TWiV to explain the work of EcoHealth Alliance in surveillance of bats in China for SARS-related coronaviruses to provide the information needed to prevent future pandemics, and why NIH recently withdrew financial support for their work.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker
Guest: Peter Daszak
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Links for this episode
- Bats are reservoirs of SARSr-CoV (Science) 3:40
- Bat SARSr-CoV that binds ACE2 (Nature) 22:07
- Rich gene pool of bat SARSr-CoV (PLoS Path) 30:30
- Bat SARSr-CoV infect humans (Virol Sin) 33:18
- Transmission of bat SARSr-CoV in China (bioRxiv) 45:17
- Global Virome Project (Science) 47:32, 55:15
- ASV Virtual Workshops 2020 1:18:57
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- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees
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Interesting. I have learned a lot.
Love the integrated video!
loved being able to see everyone.
Peter was great. very insightful. I like the way he has handled the fed funding cut. Hopefully, ByeDon will see his funding reinstated and his samples are still there waiting their return.
Vincent is in the news again.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/virologists-vigorously-debunk-study-origins-coronavirus/story?id=71097846
Listening to this is an hour really well spent. Very, very interesting.
Thanks to all of you especially Peter.