TWiV 1209: Just say no to norovirus

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2025

⏱️ 101 minutes

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TWiV reviews RFK Jr’s odd comments on ‘single antigen’ vaccines and his September deadline for understanding why autism has increased, dire wolf does not come back from the dead, oral norovirus vaccine tablet that induces mucosal immunity in older adults, and identification of broadly neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies against norovirus. 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 RFK Jr. and Novavax (MSN) September deadline to understand autism rise (Reuters) Dire wolf not resurrected (Science) Oral norovirus vaccine tablet (Sci Transl Med) Broadly neutralizing norovirus monoclonal antibodies (Sci Transl Med) Letters read on TWiV 1209 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – New experiment updates classic experiment on how life on Earth started Kathy – APOD ISS meets Venus, Sign up for NASA ISS alerts, GoISS Watch Alan – Mason bees could replace honeybees as crop pollinators Vincent – Mystery of medieval manuscripts revealed by ancient DNA Listener Pick Sonrisa – GOT’EM Good! 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 MicrowTV, this is Twiv.
0:13.9	This week in Virology, episode 1209, recorded on April 11, 2025.
0:22.5	I'm Vincent Dracon Yello and you're listening to the podcast, All About Viruses.
0:27.6	Joining me today from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kathy Spindler.
0:31.7	Hi, everybody.
0:32.6	Here it's 9 degrees Celsius, 50 degrees Fahrenheit, and blue sky clouds very nice after a couple
0:40.1	gray, rainy days.
0:42.5	Look, 9 degrees C here in Chelsea as well.
0:46.1	Cloudy, it's apparently raining.
0:48.8	It's been raining for many days.
0:51.1	Also joining us from Western Massachusetts, Ellen Dove. Good to be here. It's currently 46 Fahrenheit
0:57.7	8C overcast. It is fortunately, you know, warm enough that the snow that was on the ground when I woke up
1:04.8	this morning had melted pretty quickly. And gosh, it's April. We're sick of the snow already.
1:14.3	But you haven't had much snow lately, right?
1:16.2	No, no, no.
1:17.1	It was just, it was a brief flurries that we got last night.
1:21.1	And I got up this morning.
1:21.9	I looked out the window.
1:22.7	I said, oh, great.
1:24.1	But then it was gone.
1:25.3	You didn't have to pull out the wovel. No, I didn't need the wovell, didn't need the electric snowblower.
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