Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Adolfo Garcia-Sastre

Vincent speaks with Adolfo Garcia-Sastre about the origin, pathogenesis, and prevention of the 2009 pandemic influenza H1N1 virus.

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• Influenza virus receptor specificity and disease
• PB1-F2 expression by 2009 H1N1 strain does not increase virulence
• Protection against 2009 H1N1 infection by immunization with older strains
• Passage in eggs changes influenza receptor specificity
• Association between D222G mutation and virulence

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Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Stephen Morse

Vincent, Alan, and Stephen Morse discuss progressive vaccinia in a smallpox vaccinee, arsenic and influenza in mice, facemasks and flu transmission, and antigenic and genetic analyses of the new H1N1 influenza virus.

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Alan Org-Mode
Vincent Human/Swine A/H1N1 Influenza Origins and Evolution
Stephen The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

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