Host: Vincent Racaniello

Special guests: Rebekah Kading and Wyndham Lathem

From the ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research meeting, Vincent speaks with Rebekah and Wyndham about their work on Rift Valley Fever virus and other vector-borne pathogens, and the evolution and pathogenesis of Yersinia pestis, the agent of plague.

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Links for this episode 

• Rift Valley fever virus risk (Emerg Micr Inf)
• Predicting Rift Valley fever virus transmission (PLoS NTD)
• Culex in New York City (BioOne)
• Early emergence of Y. pestis (Nature Comm)
• Pneumonic plague (Trends Micro)

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