TWiV 623: Bats and coronaviruses with Peter Daszak

Peter Daszak joins TWiV to explain the work of EcoHealth Alliance in surveillance of bats in China for SARS-related coronaviruses to provide the information needed to prevent future pandemics, and why NIH recently withdrew financial support for their work. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello , Rich Condit , Kathy Spindler , and Brianne Barker Guest: Peter Daszak Subscribe (free): iTunes , Google Podcasts , RSS , email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Bats are reservoirs of SARSr-CoV (Science) Bat SARSr-CoV that binds ACE2 (Nature) Rich gene pool of bat SARSr-CoV (PLoS Path) Bat SARSr-CoV infect humans (Virol Sin) Transmission of bat SARSr-CoV in China (bioRxiv) Global Virome Project (Science) ASV Virtual Workshops 2020 Image credit Timestamps by Jolene . Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]