TWiV 104: The colony-collapse blues

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

On episode #104 of the podcast This Week in Virology, the entire TWiV family reviews the latest ideas about colony collapse disorder of honeybees, and resurgence of monkeypox in Africa.

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Links for this episode:

• The Harvey Lectures
• Iridovirus and microsporidian linked to colony collapse disorder
• CCD discussed previously on TWiV 64, 49, and 46
• Why are they called iridoviruses?
• Iridoviruses at ViralZone
• Scientists and soldiers solve a bee mystery (NY Times, pdf)
• Edgewood research center involvement in CCD
• Resurgence of monkeypox in Africa (PNAS)
• Orthopoxvirus in Ghana
• Outbreak of monkeypox in US (MMWR)
• Goodbye smallpox vaccination, hello monkeypox
• Letters read on TWiV 104

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