Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Zika virus spreads in the USA, a Zika virus DNA vaccine goes into phase I trials, and how mosquito bites enhance virus replication and disease, from the friendly TWiFolk Vincent, Dickson, Alan, and Kathy.
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Alan - The Doubleclicks
Kathy - WHO ZIKV app and ZIKV Giant Microbe
Dickson - Photographer Rosamond Purcell
Vincent - Spillover: Zika, Ebola, and Beyond
Ricardo - Portugal Four Days on Renewable Energy
Fatma - DeNovo: Predicting virus-host protein interactions
Stephen - How mosquitoes use six needles to suck your blood
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