TWiV 384: Agent 003, a view to a fish kill

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove and Rich Condit

Guests: Nischay Mishra and Ian Lipkin

Nischay and Ian join the TWiVions to discuss mass die-offs of tilapia by a novel orthomyxo-like virus, Ian's editorial on the movie Vaxxed, and new vaccines to prevent dengue virus infections, including a human challenge model.

Links for this episode

• Novel orthomyxo-like virus in Tilapia die-offs (mBio)
• Fish flu (TWiV 41)
• Anti-vaccination lunacy won't stop (WSJ)
• Single-dose dengue vaccine effective (J Inf Dis)
• Dengue vaccine needs (J Inf Dis)
• Composition of TV003 (J Inf Dis)
• Dengue vaccine mutagenesis (Curr Top Micr Imm)
• Dengue human challenge model (Sci Transl Med)
• Yellow fever alarm (STAT)
• Experiment: Zika virus
• UC Berkeley Microbiology Student Symposium
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiV 384

This episode is sponsored by ASM Agar Art Contest, ASM Grant Writing Course, and ASV 2016

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