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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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• 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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