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TWiV 177: Live in Dublin

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Connor Bamford, Wendy Barclay, Richard Elliott, and Ron Fouchier

A discussion of avian influenza H5N1 transmission experiments in ferrets and novel bunyaviruses at the 2012 Spring Conference of the Society for General Microbiology in Dublin, Ireland.

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Links for this episode:

• Restricted data on H5N1 transmission (Science)
• Novel bunyavirus in China (NEJM and TWiV 127)
• Ten things about Schmallenberg virus (Microbiology Bytes)
• NSABB reverses decision on H5N1 papers (virology blog)
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 177
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