Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Matthew Frieman Vincent, Alan, and Matt review contamination of Rotarix with circovirus DNA, antigenic similarity between 1918 and 2009 H1N1 influenza, a collection of rabies reports, and chicken pox mistaken for smallpox in Uganda. This episode is sponsored by Data Robotics Inc. Use the promotion code TWIVPOD to receive [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Alan, and Rich talk about US government contract for freeze-dried smallpox vaccine, red squirrels in the UK threatened by poxvirus, and Marseillevirus, another DNA virus from amoebae built for comfort and speed. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast [Audio clip: [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Jennifer Drahos Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Jennifer Drahos tackle the Hendra virus disease outbreak in Australia, AIDS-like disease in wild chimps, return of polio type 2 in Nigeria, the influenza pandemic wave, and rabies in three countries. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Delthia Ricks Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Delthia Ricks discuss a new influenza virus-like particle vaccine, dog flu, ultrasensitive pen-sized virus detector, imported rabies in the US, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, and next season’s flu vaccines. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast [Audio clip: [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Vincent, Dick, Alan and Rich Condit chat about infectious salmon anemia virus, virus-resistant grapevines, virulence of pandemic H1N1 influenza virus, origin of 1918 influenza virus, holy water ban to halt influenza, frequency of human WU and KI polyomavirus infection, rabies in China, and host species of [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Glenn Rall Vincent and Glenn Rall chat about koi herpesvirus, H1N1 influenza vaccine produced in insect cells, attack by a rabid raccoon, and measles. Sponsor: Try GotoMyPC free for 30 days! For this special offer, visit www.gotomypc.com/podcast [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Links for this episode: Virus suspected in carp die-off: [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Luis Villarreal Vincent, Alan, and Luis talk about rabies in Viet Nam and Angola, needle-stick infections with ebolavirus and West Nile virus, and viral evolution. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Links for this episode: Furious rabies after an atypical exposure Rabies outbreak in Angola Ebolavirus needle stick [...]
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier [Audio clip: view full post to listen] CDC page on rabies Dick’s Ecology 101 course Ecotone defined Negri bodies defined (down on the page) Download TWiV #4 (16.7 MB .mp3) Episode transcript (download pdf) Subscribe to TWiV in iTunes or by the RSS feed.
