Tony Schountz joins TWiV to explain the work of his laboratory showing that deer mice can be infected with and transmit SARS-CoV-2, and how his colony of Jamaican fruit bats is being used to understand their response to virus infections.…

Ihe COVID-19 pandemic has exposed weaknesses in the world’s ability to track and respond to major infectious disease outbreaks. The 2014 to 16 Ebola epidemic in West Africa showed up longstanding weaknesses in the international health “system” – and how unprepared…