TWiV 1185: The birds and the Bs

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 19 January 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

TWiV explains Guillain-Barré Syndrome associated with RSV vaccines, outbreaks of metapneumovirus in China and India, editors resign to protest Elsevier’s use of AI in publishing, global distribution and diversity of wild bird associated pathogens, and broadly inhibitory anti-neuraminidase antibody from human memory B cells. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV ASV 2025 GBS with RSV vaccine (FDA) Increase in respiratory infections in China (ECDC) Elsevier journal editors resign (Retract Watch) Wild bird associated pathogens (Med) Broad anti-neuraminidase antibody (Cell Host Micr) Letters read on TWiV 1185 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – Dear Reviewer 2 Rich – National Data Buoy Center Alan – BBC audio program on the World Morse Code Championships Vincent – These are the 20 most-studied bacteria — the majority have been ignored Listener Picks Peter – Local graffiti in Sydney Vivian – The Peoples’ Hospital by Dr. Ricardo Nuila 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.
0:10.1	From MicrowTV, this is Twiv, this week in Virology.
0:15.4	Episode 1185 recorded on January 10, 2025.
0:22.3	I'm Vincent Rackenello, and you're listening to the podcast All About Viruses.
0:27.3	Joining me today from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit.
0:30.8	Hi, everybody.
0:33.4	As you can tell, Tinkerbell is not with us, meaning that it is overcast outside, and they're currently reporting 43 degrees and forecasting an overnight low of 28, less than freezing, which we have experienced, we've experienced sub-freezing temperatures about twice in the last week this will be the last bit of that but this is pretty standard although late this year
1:03.5	Austin weather with Jack Frost coming through a couple of times and rebooting the garden. So it's all good.
1:12.9	Here it's zero C.
1:16.8	And it's a nice sunny skies.
1:23.3	And our temperatures for the next week are going to be in the minus 3, minus 6, minus 7,
1:25.7	minus 5, minus 2 all week.
1:30.5	Also joining us from Western Massachusetts, Alan Dove.
1:31.4	Good to be here.
1:35.6	And it is one degree colder Fahrenheit here than it is in Austin.
1:38.9	It's 42 Fahrenheit, 6 Celsius.
1:44.5	It's been blustery wind for a week and really, really cold.
1:47.2	And so this is a nice little warm spell we're enjoying.
1:50.3	And from Madison, New Jersey, Brian Barker.
1:51.1	Hi.
1:53.2	Great to see you all.
1:55.2	It is, in fact, winter here as well.
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