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TWiV 387: Quaxxed
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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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