Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Rich Condit

Vincent and Rich discuss fruit fly viruses, one year without polio in Nigeria, and a permissive Marek's disease viral vaccine that allows transmission of virulent viruses.

Links for this episode * Virology tenure-track position at NCI (pdf) * ASM Agar Art Contest * Nigeria on brink of polio eradication (Nature) * Dengue in Africa (Tyler Sharp) * Permissive vaccines and virulence (PLoS Biol) * Marek's disease vaccines and virulence (Ed Yong) * Image credit * Letters read on TWiV 348

This episode is sponsored by ASM GAP

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