TWiV 1223: Someone is guano be sick

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2025

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

TWiV reviews RFK Jr.”s MAGA report with non-existent literature citations, a new fungus that could further devastate North American bats, surveillance of avian influenza viruses through bird guano in remote regions, and the receptor for HKU5 coronaviruses is ACE2 from Pipistrellus abramus bats. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, 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 Bad citations in MAGA report (Med Exp) Another fungus for North American bats (NY Times) Surveillance of avian influenza through bird guano (Nat Commun) ACE2 from Pipistrellus bats is receptor for HKU5 coronaviruses (Nat Commun) Letters read on TWiV 1223 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – New mutation found in orange cats Kathy – Middle schooler’s STEM project leads to a bacterium with antibiotic activity and to an anti-cancer compound Vincent – Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death 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, this week in Virology, episode 12, 23, recorded on the 30th of May
0:20.2	2025.
0:22.7	I'm Vincent Draconielo, and you're listening to the podcast All About Viruses.
0:28.5	Joining me today from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kathy Spindler.
0:32.8	Hi, everybody.
0:33.8	Here it's 73 degrees Fahrenheit, which is 22 degrees Celsius, and mostly just puffy white clouds and
0:42.4	like blue sky. Pretty nice. Here in Chelsea, it's 23. So if it were, for 28, it would be 82. So 23 is like
0:52.7	high 70s, I'm guessing. Right. But I don't want to convert.
0:56.2	It's just for other people. I want to get used to the, I'm working on getting used to it for 10 years now for more.
1:02.3	23C and mostly cloudy in Chelsea. Also joining us from Madison, New Jersey, Brian Barker.
1:10.3	Hi. Great to be here.
1:12.2	It is also 23C here, which my phone tells me is 74.
1:17.9	Okay.
1:18.7	And it is pretty sunny out there right at the moment.
1:22.5	I think it's going to get a little cloudier later.
1:25.7	Yeah, I think here at 6 p.m. It's supposed to rain.
1:29.3	If you enjoy these programs, not this today's you haven't heard yet,
1:33.1	but hopefully you've listened to other ones.
1:34.9	If you like them,
1:36.1	where we talk about science and some peripheral things
1:39.0	that we get caught up with,
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