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Connor joins the TWiV team to discuss bats as hosts for major mammalian paramyxoviruses.
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Links for this episode:
- NIH response to Osterholm letter (pdf)
- Who’s afraid of the big, bad bioterrorist?
- Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses (Nature Comm)
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- Letters read on TWiV 183
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