Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
Vincent, Alan, and Rich review an outbreak of rabies in arctic foxes and reindeer in Norway, and a prion that makes you go antiviral.
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Links for this episode:
- Goodbye Dennis Ritchie (boingboing)
- Rabies in Svalbard (Eurosurveillance)
- Where is Longyearbyen? (Google maps)
- Svalbard global seed vault (Wikipedia)
- WHO map of rabies prevalence (pdf)
- US rabies surveillance, 2010
- A prion-like aggregate in innate immunity (Cell)
- Virology lectures on prions (#24) and virus entry (#5)
- Susan Lindquist on prions at FiB (#77, #57)
- TWiV on Facebook
- Letters read on TWiV 153
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