The TWiV hosts review persistence of Ebola virus after the end of the Liberian outbreak, and the potential role of two herpesviruses in the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler and Brianne Barker

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• Support Viruses & Cells Gordon Conference
• Trump picks scientist.com/news-opinion/president-trump-picks-meteorologist-to-lead-ostp-64598?utm_campaign=TS_DAILY%20NEWSLETTER_2018&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=64924537&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8czBCjJfA0y8hTDujHNA-GQfGCjwr4oIuD34s9gUPSl9YpT3vKJj5jMXgfc27zSky-ZMLlzlS7GEmOcAShyOHku67QXw&_hsmi=64924537">science advisor (Scientist)
• Hendra vaccine: no effect on horses racing (Aust Vet J)
• Persistence of Ebola virus (Lancet Inf Dis)
• New Ebolavirus outbreak (Telegraph)
• Alzheimer's disease and herpesviruses (Neuron)
• Herpesviruses, beta-amyloid and Alzheimer's disease (Neuron)
• Letters read on TWiV 505

Weekly Science Picks

Alan - Impossible Burger Rich - SpaceX Just Sent Algae to the ISS, Here's How It'll Power Deep Space Missions Dickson - Art and Science Intersection (Art Science Museum) Brianne - Why it is not a 'failure' to leave academia Kathy- 2003 video history of nuclear explosions 1945 - 1998 Vincent - Revisionist History Episode 8 and Episode 9

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