Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler
Vincent, Alan, and Kathy continue their coverage of the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, with a discussion of case fatality ratio, reproductive index, a conspiracy theory, and spread of the virus to the United States.
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Links for this episodeAlan - Under the knife, episode 1Kathy - UCSC Ebola genome portalVincent - Annual Review of Virology, volume 1
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