Brianne and Vincent tackle two studies that utilize infectious viruses to examine zoonotic potential of Bombali virus, a new ebolavirus from an insectivorous species in Sierra Leone, and a human mumps-like virus from an African flying fox in DRC.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Brianne Barker

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Links for this episode

• Pan American Society for Clinical Virology San Diego and Houston Regional Meetings
• It's not SARS 2.0 (TWiV 364)
• Bats out of hell (TWiV 183)
• Bombali virus, a new Ebolavirus (Nat Micro)
• Asymptomatic Ebolavirus infections (virology blog)
• Bat-borne mumps virus (Cell Rep)
• Image credit
• Letters read on TWiV 517
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.

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