TWiV 1175: A hitchiker's guide to virology

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2024

⏱️ 120 minutes

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TWiV reviews the appearance of poliovirus in Europe, mystery disease in DRC, global burden of Chikungunya, viruses of parasitic nematodes that induce antibody responses in vertebrate hosts, and picobirnaviruses, do they infect eukaryotes or prokaryotes? Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Jolene Ramsey Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode ASV 2025 Write your senators about RFK Jr Support science education at MicrobeTV Poliovirus in Europe (WHO) DRC mystery disease (Reuters) Global burden of chikungunya (BMJ Global Health) RNA viruses of parasitic nematodes (Nat Micro) Picobirnaviruses encode bacterial lysins (PNAS) Prokaryotic ribosome binding site in picobirnavirus genome (Virology) Letters read on TWiV 1175 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Alan – Sondehub and radiosonde hunting Jolene – Book “10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People” By David Yeager Vincent – Dr. Vinay Prasad “Sabotaging RFK Jr’s Confirmation Will Increase Vaccine Hesitancy” & “Doctors Criticizing RFK Jr. Paved the Way for His Ascendancy” Listener Picks Syl – Foldscope Jennifer – minutiae 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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0:49.2	you sick. From Microb TV, this is Twiv.
0:56.1	This Week in Virology.
0:58.4	Episode 1175.
1:02.3	I'm Vincent Rackeniello.
1:04.7	You're listening to the podcast All About Viruses.
1:08.6	Joining me today from Western Massachusetts, Alan Dove. Good to be here. It's
1:13.7	31 Fahrenheit minus 1C and breezy, and we actually got the first snows of the season recently.
1:22.1	It was only an inch or two. But it's properly winter here.
1:27.6	It's one degree here in Chelsea.
1:31.9	You just want you to know.
1:33.1	I see it says Chelsea, Alan.
1:34.6	Oh, nice.
1:35.9	Chelsea.
1:36.6	Right down to the neighborhood.
1:37.9	It's really the edge because it's 30th Street, which is a...
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