TWiV 1197: The long and short of influenza

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

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🗓️ 2 March 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

TWiV reviews passing of Ann Palmenberg, deadly illness in western Congo, US disruption of mpox and ebolavirus programs, first measles death in Texas outbreak, flu vaccine selection meeting postponed, US withdraws from polio, malaria, HIV programs and more, clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 viruses have a long HA stalk, and systems vaccinology to identify predictors of durable antibody response to multiple vaccines in humans. 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 Ann Palmenberg dies (Cress) Ann at Chumakov Symposium (YouTube) Unknown illness in Congo (NY Times) Bad news about mpox outbreak (NPR) US interrupts Ebola prevention program (NPR) First measles death in Texas (Texas Trib) Flu vaccine selection meeting canceled (NY Times) US ends funding for polio, HIV, malaria and more (NY Times) Clade 2.3.4.4b H5N1 neuraminidase has a long stalk (mBio) Predictors of durable antibody responses to vaccines (Nat Immunol) Review of adjuvants (Vaccinol Methods Vacc Res) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – Video of the Northern Lights from Space Rich – Vaccination for Sudan Ebola virus disease Alan – Specialized moth wing scales give it 3-D camouflage (news and paper) Vincent – WHO Recommendations for Influenza Vaccine Composition for the 2025-2026 Northern Hemisphere Influenza Season Listener Picks Gerry – Eukaryotic Transcription Anne – The science of the solar system 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.
0:10.4	From MicrobTV, this is Twiv, this week in Virology, episode 11 and 97, recorded on February 28th,
0:22.5	2025.
0:24.3	I'm Vincent Drackeniello, and you're listening to the podcast.
0:27.4	All About Viruses.
0:29.4	Joining me today from Austin, Texas,
0:32.7	Rich Condit.
0:33.5	Oh, man, I thought you were going to do somebody else first,
0:35.8	and I don't have the weather up yet.
0:37.3	Oh, here it is. Okay. Hi, everybody. I just you were going to do somebody else first, and I don't have the weather up yet. Oh, here it is.
0:38.5	Okay.
0:39.5	Hi, everybody.
0:40.3	I just randomly pick.
0:41.1	I randomly pick.
0:41.8	Yeah, you were flipping a coin there or something like that.
0:44.8	So it is 77 degrees and sunny enough to get just a little hint of Dixon over my shoulder right here.
0:54.2	Okay?
0:55.6	Maybe it'll clear up more and we'll get more of them.
0:59.3	So it's good.
1:01.5	All good.
1:02.8	It is 9 degrees Celsius here in Chelsea.
1:09.1	It's got...
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