Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Luis Villarreal
Vincent, Alan, and Luis talk about rabies in Viet Nam and Angola, needle-stick infections with ebolavirus and West Nile virus, and viral evolution.
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Links for this episode:
- Furious rabies after an atypical exposure
- Rabies outbreak in Angola
- Ebolavirus needle stick injury in Germany
- West Nile virus needle stick injury in South Africa
- Antibody response to smallpox vaccine in humans (including Dr. Villarreal)
- The chemical formula for poliovirus is:
- C332,652H492,388N98,245O131,196P7,501S2,340
- Because poliovirus is a quasispecies the number of atoms is a population average.
- Review article: Ten Reasons to Exclude Viruses from the Tree of Life
- Origin and Evolution of Viruses, second edition, edited by Esteban Domingo
- Origin of Group Identity by Luis Villarreal
Science blog of the week: Small Things Considered by Moselio Schaechter and Merry Youle
Science podcast pick of the week: The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe
Science book of the week: Viruses and the Evolution of Life by Luis Villarreal
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