TWiV 304: Given X, solve for EBOV

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Jeff Shaman

The TWiV team consults an epidemiologist to forecast the future scope of the Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa. 

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Links for this episode

• Science communications fellow at ASM
• Estimating future cases in Ebola virus epidemic (MMWR)
• Columbia prediction of Ebola outbreak
• The Ebola emergency (NEJM)
• Q&As on Ebola virus transmission (CDC)
• Ebola virus transmission to monkeys (Lancet)
• Aerosol infection of monkeys with Ebola virus (Int J Exp Path)
• Ebola virus replication in pigs (J Inf Dis)
• Pathology of aerosol Ebola virus infection in rhesus macaques (Vet Path)
• Murine model of Ebolavirus infection (Viruses)
• Ebola virus transmission from pigs to non-human primates (Sci Rep)
• Transmission risks in BSL4 laboratory (Sci Rep)
• Why Ebola virus is unlikely to go airborne (Vox)
• Letters read on TWiV 304

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