TWiV 1225: Poultry flu and SARS-CoV-2

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 117 minutes

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TWiV reviews the administration’s call for fools gold-standard science, NIH may publish in-house, avian influenza viruses in birds in China, and Omicron pathogenicity and immune responses. 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 Fool’s Gold Standard Science (Nature) NIH may publish in-house (Stat News) Diversity of H9N2 in China (Nat Micro) Omicron and immunity (Cell Rep) Letters read on TWiV 1225 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Kathy – mSphere virus species names standardization Rich – Real Tides & Currents Graph HD Alan – Invasive termites spreading from privately owned boats Vincent – Entomologist Answers Insect Questions Listener Picks Gerry – Citations Needed podcast 221: Anti-science mugging Joyrell – Mayday: Air Disaster Favorite one, two, three, for Vincent 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.
0:10.2	From MicrowTV, this is Twiv.
0:13.6	This week in Virology, episode 1225 recorded on June 6, 2025.
0:23.2	Something symmetrical there.
0:25.1	1225, 2025?
0:28.1	Not really, but I'm Vincent Drackeniello and you're listening to the podcast,
0:32.8	All About Viruses.
0:34.7	Joining me today from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kathy Spindler.
0:39.7	Hi, everybody.
0:40.7	Here it's 69 Fahrenheit, which is 23 Celsius.
0:44.8	And I don't really see any blue sky in between the clouds, but we have some of that
0:51.0	bad air coming down from the wildfires in Canada.
0:55.0	So it's just kind of hazy.
0:58.1	Here it is 29 Celsius and mostly sunny.
1:02.5	It's very nice day today.
1:04.7	The last two days, it feels like summer finally.
1:09.0	Not that it matters, but the other days didn't feel like summer.
1:12.2	They had that spring twinge in them.
1:15.4	Today and yesterday feels like summer.
1:17.6	And I'm still wearing thermal turtlenecks and wool jackets
1:20.9	because it's cold here at the incubator.
1:24.9	And I can't regulate temperature.
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