Nipah

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Alan Dove The complete TWiVome deconstructs the movie Contagion. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV 167 (53 MB .mp3, 88  minutes). Subscribe to TWiV (free) in iTunes , at the Zune Marketplace, by the RSS feed, by email, or listen on your mobile device [...]

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Joshua Stillman Vincent, Dick, and Alan are joined by emergency medicine physician Dr. Joshua Stillman to talk about passive antibody therapy for Nipah infection in ferrets, annual influenza immunization of children, facemasks to prevent influenza, predicting dengue outbreaks by the weather, and the amazing viral communities in [...]

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TWiV 24: Viroids

March 15, 2009

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Hamish Young Vincent, Alan, and Hamish Young discuss bacteriophages in viral vaccines, enteroviruses and diabetes, inhibition of Hendra and Nipah virus replication by the malaria drug chloroquine, and viroids. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #24 (41 MB .mp3,  59 minutes) Links for this [...]

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #6 (19.8 MB .mp3) Links for this episode: Dickson was at Pop!Tech last week. Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon. US Geological Survey Disease Maps. CDC page on Hendra and Nipah viruses. The flying fox (Google image search). Vincent’s virology course. [...]

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