TWiV 1205: Pluviosity didn't kill the bat

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 104 minutes

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TWiV reviews liver damage caused by over use of vitamin A in Texas, vitamin A does not change clinical course of measles in high income country, NIH cuts COVID-19 research, US ends vaccine funds for poor countries, anti-vaxxer hired to study vaccines and autism, new DURC policy, Jamaican fruit bat competence for filoviruses, and human outbreaks of Oropouche virus reassortant in Brazil. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, 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 Vitamin A liver disease in Texas (NY Times) Vitamin A doesn’t help measles in high-income countries (Pediat Inf Dis) NIH cancels COVID grants (Science) US ends vaccine funds for poor countries (NY Times) Anti-vaxxer to study vaccines and autism (Sci Based Med) DURC rules revised (USG and NIH guidance) Filoviruses and Jamaican fruit bats (Nat Comm) Oropouche outbreaks in Brazil (Nat Med) Woolly mice (NPR) Letters read on TWiV 1205 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – Math of March Madness Brackets Kathy – Wood frogsicles #1 and #2 Alan – Rare glimpse of baby polar bears emerging from dens Vincent – Hikaru Utada Would Rather Play CERN Than Coachella 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.
0:13.8	This Week in Virology, episode 1205, recorded on 28th of March, 2025. I'm Vincent Rackeniello and you're listening to the
0:24.6	podcast, All About Viruses. Joining me today from Western Massachusetts, Alan Dove. Good to be here.
0:32.7	And it is 57 Fahrenheit 14C. And not very pluvious, but it is supposed to get that way this weekend.
0:43.5	Yeah, it's supposed to start being pluvious today, actually, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.
0:50.7	It's 18C and cloudy here in Chelsea, which is New York, not the UK.
0:57.6	Chelsea's a neighborhood in London, right?
1:00.5	I think so.
1:01.5	Also joining us from Madison, New Jersey, Brianne Barker.
1:04.6	Hi, great to be here.
1:06.9	It is 62 Fahrenheit, which is my phone says is 17 Celsius.
1:13.6	And the weather picture on my phone looks much more cloudy and foreboding.
1:20.0	I mean, it's cloudy outside, but that's like scary looking.
1:23.7	So I think it will be pluvios here as well soon-ish.
1:28.4	Yeah, we're going to be using this word forever.
1:30.9	It's from one of today's papers.
1:32.8	Also joining us from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kathy Spindler.
1:36.6	Hi, everybody.
1:37.3	I missed the reference to fluvios in one of today's papers,
1:40.3	so I am as confused as the listeners are.
1:44.3	You'll see it.
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