On episode #196 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiVites meet with Mark Stenglein and Joseph DeRisi to discuss their discovery of a novel arenavirus in snakes with inclusion body disease. You can find TWiV #196 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.

If you know anything about snakes you might be familiar with snake inclusion body disease, or IBD. This transmissible and fatal disease affects snakes of a variety of species but has been best studied in boas. The name comes from the presence of large masses (inclusions) in the cytoplasm of ...

On episode #195 of the science show This Week in Virology, the complete TWiV team meets with Ken Stedman to discuss the discovery in Boiling Spring Lake of a DNA virus with the capsid of an RNA virus. You can find TWiV #195 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.

When I drafted my article for TakePart (Don't Panic - Ebola Isn't Heading For You), I used the term 'ebolavirus' throughout, but the editors changed every instance to 'Ebola virus'. Understanding which term is correct is far more complicated than you might imagine. A new virus was first isolated in ...

An outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever that began in early July 2012 has involved at least 36 individuals and 16 deaths. So far the disease has been confined to a rural region west of Kampala, the capital of Uganda. The subject of Richard Preston's scary The Hot Zone, Ebolavirus is newsworthy ...