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

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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

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