TWiV 1093: Reservoir bats and jumbo phage

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 3 March 2024

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

TWiV discusses effectiveness of this season’s flu vaccine, efficacy of Pfizer RSV vaccine, nOPV2 in the US, dengue in Peru, measles in Michigan and Indiana, how coordinated inflammatory responses dictate control of Marburg virus by reservoir bats, and tRNA acquisition in phages driven by degradation of host translational machinery. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, Brianne Barker, and Jolene Ramsey 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) The New City by Dickson Despommier Effectiveness of flu vaccine (MMWR, Eurosurveill) Efficacy of Pfizer RSV vaccine (Pfizer) Understanding six types of vaccine technologies (Pfizer) nOPV in US? (CDC) Dengue in Peru (Peruvian State) Measles in Michigan and Indiana Marburg virus control by reservoir bats (Nat Commun) tRNA acquisition by phages (Cell) Viruses of Microbes 2024 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – The reappearance of Lake Manly Kathy – “Practical Playbook for Addressing Health Misinformation” Rich – Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart Jolene – Thinking Like a Phage by Merry Youle Vincent – The Science of Leap Year Listener Picks Blog design – Anthony Fauci will reflect on his long government career in ‘On Call,’ to be published in June Peter – Republican warns of vaccines being slipped into vegetables: ‘A polio vaccine in there’ 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 1093
0:18.0	recorded on March 1st, 2024. I'm Vincent Dracken-yellow and you're listening to the
0:25.6	podcast all about viruses. Joining me today from Ann Arbor Michigan, Kathy Spindler.
0:33.1	Hi, everybody.
0:34.0	Here it's 47 Fahrenheit, which is 6 degrees Celsius.
0:38.6	We have a gentle breeze from the south.
0:41.2	It's been cloudy throughout the day.
0:45.0	Gentle, I was just to say, what is gentle? Like is it below five miles an hour?
0:49.0	Right now it says nine miles per hour.
0:53.6	Here at six degrees and partly cloudy.
0:57.1	It's pretty warm.
0:58.5	Yeah, same temperature.
1:00.4	Also joining us from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit.
1:05.0	Hi everybody.
1:07.0	Let me see here, let me clean up my desktop mess here.
1:11.0	We have 66 degrees and as you can say Tinker Bell is kind of hanging out.
1:20.0	I guess there's a mild there's a sort of a wispy cloudy this
1:26.3	diffused today to the whole thing but it's a nice day diffuse cloud there you go
1:30.5	it's a nice day so joining joining us from Madison, New Jersey, Brie and Barker.
1:35.1	Hi, it's great to be here.
1:37.2	It is 48 Fahrenheit here, so I think we're going to be split today.
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