Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove

The complete TWiVome deconstructs the movie Contagion.

Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 167 (53 MB .mp3, 88  minutes).

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Links for this episode:

• R0 explained (pdf)
• Hendra and Nipah encephalitis (CDC)
• Contagion (IMdB)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 167

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We recorded episode 1 of TWiV on 12 September 2008, and again on 19 September. Sorry for the delay in posting, we had post-production problems. Download the netcast below. We’ll post the iTunes link as soon as it is accepted by Apple.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier.

Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #1 (41.8 MB .mp3 file)

Links for this episode:

• Buy “West Nile Story” by Dickson Despommier.
• ProMed Mail. The global reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious disease.
• PubMed. A service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.
• West Nile page at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Great maps of where the virus has been found.

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