Description

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Carolyn Coyne, Helen Lazear, and Jeremy Luban

The TWiVziks present everything you want to know about Zika virus, including association of infection with microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome, transmission, epidemiology, and much more.

Links for this episode

• Zika outbreak in Brazil (EID) 13:40
• Zika summary (ProMedMail) 19:30
• Zika and microcephaly (MMWR) 27:30
• Facts about microcephaly (CDC)
• Brazil Ministry of Health microcephaly numbers
• Zika spread in Americas (MMWR)
• Deu Zica 42:30
• Microcephaly in Brazil (Lancet) 46:10
• GM mosquitoes did not start Zika outbreak (Discover) 1:31:30
• Debunking myths around Zika (Mad Virologist)
• Sexual transmission vs sexually transmissible (virology blog) 1:22:10
• CDC Zika travel guidance 1:15:45
• CDC on Zika and sex 1:17:10
• Image credit: Esper Kallas, University of Sao Paulo
• Letters read on TWiV 375

This episode is sponsored by 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium and ASM Grant Writing Webinar

Weekly Science Picks 1:50:45

Alan - Jetstream Online School for Weather
Vincent - New virus watercolors from Michele Banks (one, two)
Rich - The Mad Virologist (Facebook, blog)
Kathy - Orcas in Antarctica
Jeremy - Pardis Sabeti on TED
Helen - Science Valentines
Carolyn - Three letter word missing from Zika warnings

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