Description

Connor joins the TWiV team to discuss bats as hosts for major mammalian paramyxoviruses.

Links for this episode:

• NIH response to Osterholm letter (pdf)
• Who's afraid of the big, bad bioterrorist?
• Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses (Nature Comm)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 183

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