TWiV 1219: Koalas sweep horse shift

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Summary

TWiV reviews pause in the use of Chikungunya vaccine, HHS to stop recommending COVID shots for pregnant women and children, molecular basis for shifted receptor recognition by an encephalitic alphavirus, and evolution of koala retrovirus transcriptional silencing in wild koalas. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, and Rich Condit Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV Pause in use of Ixchiq (FDA) Change in COVID vaccine recommendations (STAT) Basis for receptor shift in encephalitic alphavirus (Cell) Transcriptional silencing of koala retrovirus (Cell) Letters read on TWiV 1219 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Rich – What’s that stuff in your bellybutton? Science has the answer. Vincent – New study reveals our skin’s own bacteria can help protect us from the bad effects of sunlight Listener Pick Rona – My Italian secret: the forgotten heroes and Italy and the Holocaust Foundation, Inc. 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 MicrowTV, this is Twiv, this week in Virology. Episode 1219 recorded on the 16th of May,
0:21.9	2025.
0:28.0	I'm Vincent Rackeniello, and you're listening to the podcast, All About Viruses.
0:32.1	Joining me today from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit.
0:33.6	Howdy there, Vincent?
0:35.4	It's great to be here.
0:37.5	Just to preview've just to
0:38.9	preview, just the two of us, right?
0:41.2	Just the two of us, that's right. This is cool. This is,
0:43.1	we can do this. We've done this before. We've done it before
0:47.0	with thousands of miles between us. So, that's cool. That's right.
0:52.3	It's 23C here.
1:02.9	I'm in New Jersey today because the commuter rail, New Jersey Transit, the engineers went on strike.
1:06.6	So all the trains are shut down.
1:10.2	So fortunately, I have a studio here, as you can see.
1:12.3	I like the incubator better better but at least I'm here
1:15.3	So what we got here is
1:17.8	Let me make sure I'm looking at the right thing here
1:23.0	Yep
1:24.2	We have 96 degrees And so we have been experiencing since Tuesday this is
1:33.0	Friday so Tuesday so Wednesday I don't know what they were calling a heat wave it was nice and
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