Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, and Alan Dove
Vincent, Dick, and Alan talk about insect and human dengue virus host proteins, equine vaccine for WNV and EEEV, return of swine flu to humans, spread of polio in Africa, and listener email.
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Links for this episode:
Discovery of insect and human dengue virus host proteins
Immunize your horse with PreveNile
Swine flu returns to California, Texas, Mexico
Polio spreads from Nigeria to 15 African countries
Dead Chinese woman on Russian train: no SARS or influenza
Jenny McCarthy body count
Ten dumbass reasons why people don’t get their flu shots
Science blog of the week: Science-based medicine
Science podcast pick of the week: WNYC’s Radio Lab
Science book of the week: Flu by Gina Kolata
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You mentioned podcasts in the curriculum and the use of TWIV. Just for information, you're on the curriculum here at the University of Birmingham (the one in England, not Alabama!).
That's great to know! We'll mention it on TWiV. As usual, England is
ahead of the USA.
With regard to the origin of viruses, it is worth noting that viral genomes are themselves a record of evolution. Perhaps Eugene Koonin would be a good person to discus this idea on your podcast.
They are, but we lack all the intermediates to trace the evolution.
Dr. Koonin has agreed to to an upcoming TWiV.
That should be fun.
Woops, I meant to add this: Here is a paper that discusses some viral/cellular evolution issues: http://www.biology-direct.com/content/pdf/1745-... It is open access, though one may have to register to see it.
Hope it will gone immediately
Swine flu seemed different that it first affected humans and it was a human who then transmitted that back to a pig…. i wonder if the other diseases were also started in similar trail…?
Hello.
I am the creator of the Jenny McCarthy Body Count. I recently learned about your mentioning my site and I just listened to the episode. I'm glad that you liked it.
Thanks for the mention and the link.
Derek Bartholomaus
http://www.JennyMcCarthyBodyCount.com
Thanks for doing that site, Derek. It's brilliant. I've heard from
many people who like it and their compliments are all for you. For
example, a parent with an autistic child told me it was wonderful.
hopefully a vaccine will be developed real soon
and death rate won't increase
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