Connor joins the TWiV team to discuss bats as hosts for major mammalian paramyxoviruses.

Links for this episode: * NIH response to Osterholm letter (pdf) * Who's afraid of the big, bad bioterrorist? * Bats host major mammalian paramyxoviruses (Nature Comm) * TWiV on Facebook * Letters read on TWiV 183

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