TWiV 1199: Loosely contained

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 9 March 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

TWiV covers a second death over 150 cases of measles in Texas, utter failure of removal of type 2 poliovirus from OPV, more OPV doses administered in Gaza, second Ebola outbreak in Sudan, vaccine being tested, Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants to Columbia University, bat-infecting merbecovirus that binds human ACE2 and infects human cells, and innate immune sensing of rotavirus by intestinal epithelial cells leads to diarrhea. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV ASV 2025 Second child dies of measles (NY Times) Over 150 measles cases in Texas (Texas DSHS) Utter failure of removal of OPV2 from OPV (Science) Over 600,000 doses of OPV administered in Gaza (polioeradication) Second outbreak of Sudan Ebola in Uganda (IAVI) Columbia grants canceled by administration (NBC News) Bat merbecovirus also infects human cells via Ace2 (Cell) Recent virus research, was proper containment used? (NY Times) Innate immune sensing of rotatvirus leads to diarrhea (Cell Host Microbe) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Kathy – Mice cry out when they urinate, and give mouth to mouth resuscitation Rich – Firefly Aerospace Alan – Strong Museum of Play Vincent – How a PhD student’s lab size affects their chance of future academic success Listener Picks Larry – James Harrison’s rare blood protected many infants 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.
0:10.3	From MicrobTV, this is Twiv. This week in Virology, episode 1199, recorded on March 7, 2025.
0:22.6	I'm Vincent Rackeniello, and you're listening to the podcast All About Viruses.
0:28.3	Joining me today from Western Massachusetts, Alan Dove.
0:32.0	Good to be here.
0:33.0	And here in Western Mass, it is 41 Fahrenheit 5C, and it is blowing a gale. They're saying Northwest 25,
0:40.5	gusting 36, I think it may be even a little more than that. So if I suddenly blip out, it's because
0:46.9	probably the wires blew down. Here it started to warm up, and today it's one degree. Everything was
0:54.1	frozen again this morning, and I see for the coming days, it's one one degree. Everything was frozen again this morning and I see for the
0:56.1	coming days it's going to be above freezing for finally every day which is good. Also joining us
1:03.9	from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit. Hi everybody. Check this out. It is 84 degrees.
1:12.6	Oh.
1:15.3	And, you know, I would say variable cloudiness.
1:19.5	84 is pleasant, right?
1:21.1	Oh, 84 is fine.
1:22.4	84 is great.
1:23.3	What's the humidity?
1:24.3	Is it medium?
1:27.0	I mean, what do you feel?
1:28.3	Do you feel a lot of you?
1:28.8	I feel, yeah, oh, it's very comfortable.
1:31.5	This time of year is awesome.
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