Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Dick, Alan and Rich revisit a vaccinia virus lab accident and viral vaccines produced in plants, then talk about an iPhone app to track infectious diseases, flying foxes, and an inhaled measles vaccine.

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Links for this episode:

• Laboratory acquired vaccinia infection
• Medicago (investor presentation, pdf) and Fraunhofer produce vaccines in plants
• iPhone app Outbreaks near me
• No culling of flying foxes in Australia
• Inhaled powdered measles virus vaccine
• Herpesvirus latency confers symbiotic protection from bacterial infection (thanks Juliet!)
• Porcine circovirus vaccine
• Swine flu vaccine and Guillain-Barré (thanks Tom!)
• The Great Flu and blog post (thanks Swiss compass and Allison!)
• Building semiconductors with DNA (thanks Duncan!)
• Email on viral classification (thanks Rodney and Eliot!)

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