This Week in Virology

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TWiV #3 - Dengue Oct 02, 2008

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Article on the mortgage crisis and West Nile virus in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Environment-oriented review of Dengue.

Dengue page at the World Health Organization.

TWiV #2 - Polio is not dead Sep 26, 2008

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polioeradication.org for the latest information on the global state of polio.

Abstract of the Science article on engineering a new polio vaccine: “Virus attenuation by genome-scale changes in codon pair bias”.

TWiV #1 - West Nile Virus Sep 24, 2008

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Buy “West Nile Story” by Dickson Despommier.

ProMed Mail. The global reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious disease.

PubMed. A service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.

West Nile page at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Great maps of where the virus has been found.