TWiV 375: Zika and you will find

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Carolyn Coyne, Helen Lazear, and Jeremy Luban

The TWiVziks present everything you want to know about Zika virus, including association of infection with microcephaly and Guillain-Barré syndrome, transmission, epidemiology, and much more.

• Zika outbreak in Brazil (EID) 13:40


• Zika summary (ProMedMail) 19:30


• Zika and microcephaly (MMWR) 27:30


• Facts about microcephaly (CDC)


• Brazil Ministry of Health microcephaly numbers


• Zika spread in Americas (MMWR)


• Deu Zica 42:30


• Microcephaly in Brazil (Lancet) 46:10


• GM mosquitoes did not start Zika outbreak (Discover) 1:31:30


• Debunking myths around Zika (Mad Virologist)


• Sexual transmission vs sexually transmissible (virology blog) 1:22:10


• CDC Zika travel guidance 1:15:45


• CDC on Zika and sex 1:17:10


• Image credit: Esper Kallas, University of Sao Paulo


• Letters read on TWiV 375

This episode is sponsored by 32nd Clinical Virology Symposium and ASM Grant Writing Webinar

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