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Hosts:\\xa0Vincent Racaniello,\\xa0Alan Dove,\\xa0and\\xa0Kathy Spindler

Vincent, Alan, and Kathy continue their coverage\\xa0of the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, with a discussion of case fatality ratio, reproductive index, a conspiracy theory, and spread of the\\xa0virus to the United States.

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Links for this episode

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• Science communications fellow\\xa0at ASM
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• Can we get AIDS from\\xa0mosquito bites? (J La State Med Soc)
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• Why mosquitoes\\xa0cannot transmit AIDS
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• Isolation of\\xa0Bundibugyo ebolavirus\\xa0in Uganda (PLoS Path)
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• Ebola virus disease outbreak,\\xa0Nigeria\\xa0(MMWR)
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• Nigeria contains\\xa0Ebola virus outbreak\\xa0(NY Times)
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• First Ebola virus case\\xa0in US\\xa0(NY Times)
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• Ebola virus disease:\\xa0USA ex Liberia\\xa0(ProMedMail)
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• First imported Ebola virus\\xa0case in US\\xa0(CDC)
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• Assessing risk of\\xa0spread of Ebola virus\\xa0(PLoS Currents)
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• How\\xa0contagious\\xa0is Ebola virus? (NPR)
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• Estimating\\xa0reproductive index\\xa0of Ebola virus (PLoS Currents)
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• Polio-like illness, EV-D68 suspected (ProMedMail)
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• Polio-like illness, North America (ProMedMail)
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• Four deaths\\xa0associated with EV-D68 (NY Times)
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• Image credit:\\xa0Pigott et al eLife
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• Letters read\\xa0on TWiV\\xa0305
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• Video of this episode - view at\\xa0YouTube
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