TWiV 1251: Swedish models and agent 007

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

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🗓️ 7 September 2025

⏱️ 116 minutes

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TWiV reviews a study showing that the 2009 influenza pandemic virus disrupted biennial respiratory syncytial virus epidemics in northern Stockholm, and development of broad-spectrum synthetic carbohydrate receptors that inhibit viral entry of coronaviruses, filoviruses, and paramyxoviruses. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Angela Mingarelli Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV Florida will end all state vaccine mandates (Reuters) New West Coast Health Alliance (Gov Newsome) COVID vaccines to be more accessible in NY State (CBSNews) Colorado makes COVID vaccines accessible (Denver Post) Massachusetts makes COVID vaccines accessible (Boston dot com) Viral interference disrupts RSV biennial pattern (Nat Comm) Broad-spectrum antiviral carbohydrate receptors (Science Adv) Pedantry about ‘in cellulo‘ (Protocol Online) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Angela – Revolutionary Bee “Superfood” Could Save Collapsing Colonies (U Oxford) Kathy – Margaret W. Rossiter, Who Discovered Women of Science, Dies at 81 Rich – Scientists track humpback whale migration with help from AI (Happywhale) Alan – You’re probably using the wrong dictionary (Alan’s first work of fiction) Vincent – Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A(H5N1) Virus Infection in a Child with No Known Exposure 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 Microbe TV, this is Twib. This week in Virology, episode 1251 recorded on September 5th, 2025.
0:23.6	I'm Vincent Rackeniello, and you're listening to the podcast, All About Viruses.
0:29.0	Joining me today from Ann Arbor, Michigan, Kathy Spindler.
0:33.0	Hi, everybody.
0:33.9	Here it's 70 degrees Fahrenheit.
0:35.9	We've had the best stretch of beautiful weather, it continues blue sky and that's 21 Celsius. We did escape the effects of the solar storm, meaning that we saw no auroras, even though it was advertised that it might be really good. And I went out and looked. Oh, well.
0:53.9	We are now getting warmer again.
0:55.8	So we had fake fall.
0:58.2	Now we're getting into fake summer.
1:01.0	We only have one day of fall, actually, because it gets hot now for a long time and then suddenly one day of fall and that's it.
1:06.3	28C here in Chelsea.
1:09.6	Also joining us from Montreal, Canada, Angela Mingarelli.
1:14.2	Hey, everyone.
1:15.4	Here it is 73C, so basically like Kathy, I think that's 23, sorry, not 73C.
1:21.7	Wow, can you imagine?
1:23.4	73F, 23C.
1:25.5	It's a 23C.
1:27.3	And here it's nice during the day, but it is getting cold at night.
1:30.6	Like in the, at night we go into like the 50s, I think like 11, 12, 13 degrees.
1:37.3	Um, which September, as usual is. You have to dress like an onion. You're like freezing in
1:41.1	the morning and then sweating in the afternoon. But I'm actually
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