TWiV 1267: A cancer vaccine and an mpox treatment

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 2 November 2025

⏱️ 122 minutes

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TWiV discusses the impact of vaccinating with Gardasil-9 adult women who are human papillomavirus positive or with confirmed squamous intraepithelial lesions, and human monoclonal antibodies that target the monkeypox virus A35 protein which protect against lethal disease. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, 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 Immune 100 live at the Incubator Long tailed macaques are now officially endangered (Science) Iceland now has mosquitoes (npr) Impact of Gardasil-9 on adult women who are HPV+ or SIL+ (Viruses) Human mAbs that protect against mpox disease (Cell) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Brianne – Civet coffee: The real chemistry behind this bizarre luxury drink Kathy – Astronomy photographer of the year awards Rich – Katherine Swan Ginsburg Humanism in Medicine Program Alan – Parasitic worms can use static electricity to latch onto flies midair Vincent – How to get the best night’s sleep: what the science says Listener Pick Bradon – Elevated Access 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 MicrobTV, this is Twiv.
0:14.0	This week in Virology, episode 1267, recorded on the 31st of October 2025. Happy Halloween, everybody. I'm Vincent Rackeniello.
0:28.3	You're listening to the podcast, All About Viruses. Joining me today from Western Massachusetts,
0:35.2	Alan Dove. It's good to be here on this spooky Halloween and here in Western Massachusetts.
0:40.5	The storm clouds are thick and the wind is howling like a werewolf.
0:44.6	Where's your black cat, Alan?
0:46.2	He was around. I was hoping he would be on.
0:49.5	Well, we have two black cats.
0:51.5	Well, the fluffy one and the short-haired one.
0:54.1	And the short-haired one was, you know, playing fetch and everything.
0:57.3	And then he just went off on cat business.
0:59.5	Anyway, it's 54 Fahrenheit 12C on a cloudy, windy day.
1:03.9	I am wearing the only mask that I have at KN95, which actually has a copper lining.
1:13.6	I'm going to take it off now because it's annoying.
1:16.5	It's a reusable mask with a copper lining, which you can replace and a little foam here,
1:20.9	so it's very easy on the nose.
1:23.6	I use that for airplanes.
1:25.0	Also joining us from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit.
1:28.4	Hi, everybody.
1:30.2	You know, I don't have a whole lot of Halloween-specific stuff here.
1:33.7	I will say that today marks, I may have said this in the last episode,
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