TWiV 1125: Can pig flu viruses go viral?

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

Vincent, Microbe, Medicine, Microbiology, Racaniello, Infection, Virus, Virology, Pathogen, Infectious, Twiv, Science & Medicine

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2024

⏱️ 96 minutes

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TWiV reviews criticism of NIAID monkeypox virus experiments by House Republicans, spread of wild poliovirus across Afghanistan and Pakistan, plan to overhaul NIH by House lawmakers, and the potential pandemic risk of circulating swine H1N2 influenza viruses. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Brianne Barker, and Angela Mingarelli Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode MicrobeTV Discord Server 2024 International HBV Meeting House Republicans fault NIH for evasive answers on monkeypox virus study (Science) Report on MPX experiments at NIAID (pdf) Wild poliovirus spreads across Pakistan and Afghanistan (Science) Plan to overhaul NIH (Science) Reforming NIH (pdf) Potential pandemic risk of circulating swine H1N2 influenza viruses (Nat Comm) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Angela – Staring at the Sun — close-up images from space rewrite solar science Brianne – Water frost detected on Mars Volcanos Dickson – Best view yet of the Crab Nebula Vincent – Will Your Tattoo Give You Cancer: Probably Not…but Maybe? Listener Picks Jessica – Manchurian plague Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected] Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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0:00.0	This Week in Virology, the Podcast About Viruses, the kind that make you sick.
0:07.0	From Microbe TV, this is Twive this weekend, Virology.
0:15.0	Episode 1125, recorded on June 21st, 2024.
0:22.0	I'm Vincent Rachin-Yello and you're listening to the
0:24.0	podcast all about viruses. Joining me today from Fort Lee, New Jersey, Dixon,
0:30.9	Despoier. Hello, Vincent and welcome back to this show.
0:35.2	Thank you.
0:36.4	We missed you.
0:37.7	Dearly, we missed you.
0:38.8	And that's a sincere comment.
0:41.8	Rare for me, but I gave you one.
0:44.0	Looking at the window, it looks beautiful.
0:47.0	Looking at the window, it looks beautiful,
0:50.0	but if you go outside, you could fry an egg on the sidewalk, so to speak.
0:54.0	It's really hot and it's going to get hotter.
0:59.0	So enough said.
1:01.0	I'm in New Jersey.
1:02.0	I don't know what the temperature is is but it's pretty warm and sunny. It's a very nice day.
1:06.3	Also joining us from Madison, New Jersey, Brie Ann Barker. Hi, I'd like to echo what Dixon had to say and say welcome back.
1:16.5	Thank you.
1:17.5	It's also extremely warm here.
1:20.1	It is 96 Fahrenheit 36 Celsius.
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