Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
From the twiVivants, follow up on FluMist and Zoster vaccines, Zika virus update, and isolation of a multicomponent animal virus from mosquitoes.
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Links for this episode- FluMist problem (FDA)
- DA Henderson obituary (NY Times)
- DA Henderson, smallpox eradicator (TWiV Special)
- Efficacy of VZV vaccine (Ther Adv Vaccines)
- Zika virus burden, Puerto Rico (JAMA)
- Zika virus in Miami Beach (STAT)
- Congenital brain anomalies and Zika virus (Radiology)
- Congenital Zika syndrome with arthrogryposis (BMJ)
- Multicomponent animal virus from mosquitoes (Cell Host Microbe)
- Breaking rules of infection (NPR)
- Image credit
- Letters read on TWiV 404
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