TWiV 183: Bats out of hell

Connor joins the TWiV team to discuss bats as hosts for major mammalian paramyxoviruses. 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) TWiV on Facebook Letters read on TWiV 183 Weekly Science Picks Connor - Microbiology Twitter journal club Alan - Where the Wild Types Are (YouTube) Rich - May 14th: Smallpox vaccination day Dickson - Searching for pore-fection (Science) Vincent - RRResearch Listener Pick of the Week Stephen - Every Major's Terrible (xkcd)