TWiV 387: Quaxxed

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Nina Martin

Nina Martin joins the TWiV team to talk about the movie Vaxxed, her bout with dengue fever, and the latest research on Zika virus.

 

Links for this episode

• Public Health United
• Fifty Shades of Science (TEDx)
• Parents convicted in death of toddler (Science Based Medicine)
• CDC: Zika virus causes microcephaly (NEJM)
• Dengue virus antibodies enhance Zika virus infection (biorXiv)
• Zika virus in Brazilian nonhuman primates (biorXiv)
• Zika virus IgM in CSF of microcephalic babies (Lancet)
• Brain organoids for modeling Zika virus infection (Cell)
• Letters read on TWiV 387

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