TWiV 1091: Skeeter poo and obelisks too

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 25 February 2024

⏱️ 109 minutes

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Summary

TWiV reviews resurgence of Lassa fever in West Africa, at least 3 paralytic cases of cVDPV2 in Zimbabwe, CWD from eating prion-laden plants, measles in New Orleans and Broward County Florida, failure of Florida Surgeon General to support vaccination, a measles variant in Switzerland, SARS-CoV-2 persistent infections, leaky blood-brain-barrier for long COVID brain fog, West Nile virus transmitted among mosquitoes by the excreta, and viroid-like colonists of human microbiomes. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit and Kathy Spindler Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server MicrobeTV store at Cafepress Become a member of ASV (asv.org) Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf) The New City by Dickson Despommier Viruses of Microbes 2024 Resurgence of Lassa fever (Science) cVDPV2 in Zimbabwe (UNICEF) CWD from eating plants (CIDRAP) Measles in New Orleans (LA Dept Health) SARS-CoV-2 persistent infections (Nature) Leaky BBB for brain fog of long COVID (Nat Neurosci) Measles in Broward County FL (7 News) Failure of FL Surgeon General to support vaccination (X) Measles variant (Eurosurveillance) West Nile virus transmitted among mosquitos by excreta (bioRxiv) Mosquito life cycle (YouTube) Viroid-like colonists of human microbiomes (bioRxiv) Letters read on TWiV 1091 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Dickson – Sustainable energy in America 2024 factbook Kathy – Life Magnified USPS stamps Rich – “How plants communicate with each other when in danger” by Kasha Patel (Original Nature Communications article) Alan – A Sargasso Sea of Space card game. Vincent – Tell Me When It’s Over by Paul Offit Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]

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0:00.0	This Week in Vyrology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.
0:07.0	From Microbe TV, this is Twive, this weekend virology, episode 1091, recorded on February
0:19.2	23rd, 2024. I'm Vincent Rachinello and you're listening to the
0:26.5	podcast all about viruses. Joining me today from Fortley New Jersey, Dixon
0:31.9	de Pomier.
0:33.0	Hello, Vincent and everybody else.
0:35.0	Just looking at the window, it was a very strange morning.
0:39.0	There was a lot of fog, and then when the fog lifted it turned out it was snow instead and then when the snow stopped the sun came out and it's supposed to go up over 55 degrees within three days from now.
0:54.3	So those poor little crocuses in front of my apartment house
0:58.1	have already crocke.
1:00.2	They call them crocuses, but they're corrupt. They came up, they got snow going and they're dead.
1:05.0	Here in New York is 9 degrees C and cloudy.
1:08.0	Also joining us from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kathy Spindler.
1:12.0	Hi, everybody.
1:13.0	I have not pulled up the weather yet.
1:15.0	It says it's 48 degrees, mostly cloudy, and that would be in, no, not that one, the Norwegian weather app it would be seven degrees Celsius
1:30.2	gentle breeze from the north
1:37.0	also joining us from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit. Hi there, we have a perfect day.
1:41.0	It is 76 degrees, clear blue skies. What else can I say? No wind. It's gorgeous.
1:48.8	From Western Massachusetts, Alan Dove.
1:54.0	Good to be here. It's 46 Fahrenheit 8 Celsius.
1:58.0	Really, really mild for a February day here in the northeast. It has been a very, very mild winter.
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