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

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