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TWiV 58: Nipah virus in ferrets

by Vincent Racaniello on November 15, 2009

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 an [...]

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TWiV 24: Viroids

by Vincent Racaniello on 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.
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Links for this episode:
Bacteriophages in viral vaccines
Presence of enteroviral VP1 protein in pancreatic islets of diabetics
Chloroquine [...]

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TWiV 6: Latest outbreaks of polio, west Nile and eastern equine encephalitis, Hendra, and norovirus

by Vincent Racaniello on October 29, 2008

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier
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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.
Vincent’s texbook is Principles of Virology, third edition, ASM Press (available December 2008).
Science podcast pick of the week: Brain Science [...]

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