Episode Details

The TWiV scientists reveal that mosquitoes transmit different West Nile virus populations with each blood meal, only to have the diversity purged in a bird host.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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Links for this episode

• Driving past a milestone (TWiP 100)
• Debug Fresno (Verily blog)
• What could possibly go wrong? (TWiV 388)
• Chestnut blight (ProMedMail)
• Hypovirus molecular biology (Adv Virus Res)
• Mosquitoes transmit unique WNV populations (Cell Rep)
• Teaching science using pseudoscience
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiV 451

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Kathy - Approaching Jupiter and Michigan parents about vaccination
Rich - Math Limericks from Futility Closet
Alan - NASA flyover of Pluto
Vincent - Talk show host nominated as USDA chief scientist

Listener Pick

Neil - These smart girls are here to debunk anti-vaxxer nonsense
John - John Sever AMA

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.

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