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

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