TWiV 1293: The enemy of your parasite is your friend

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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🗓️ 1 February 2026

⏱️ 107 minutes

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TWiV reviews the finding in Sweden that immunization against cervical cancer with human papillomavirus vaccine also protects the non-immunized, and methyl salicylic acid as a key volatile molecule that attracts parasitoid wasps to rice and other crops to destroy destructive leafhoppers, and is down-regulated by virus infection to enable virus spread. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, 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 ASV 2026 Positions in Rosenfeld Lab (email) "Host adaptations to viral infections” International Meeting William Foege dies (NY Times) Peter Duesberg dies (NY Times) US gov't lost over 10,000 PhDs under DJT (Science) Herd effect of HPV vaccination (Lancet Pub Health) Arboviruses manipulate rice's volatile emissions (Sci Adv) Letters read on TWiV 1293 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Kathy - The Beak of the Finch, by Jonathan Weiner Rich - Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow Vincent - The Man from Beijing by Henning Mankell Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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0:00.0	From MicrobTV, this is Twiv. This week in Virology, episode 1293 recorded on January 30th, 2026. I'm Vincent Rackeniello and you're listening to the podcast
0:24.9	All About viruses. Just like that, January is old. Over. Joining me today from Ann Arbor, Michigan,
0:32.2	Kathy Spindler. Hi, everybody. Here, it's 16 degrees Fahrenheit. and I don't have a feels-like temperature,
0:40.1	and I don't have a Celsius temperature.
0:43.4	But, yeah, it's sunny, and it's just amazing to have a nice sunny day.
0:51.2	So it seems warm and balmy, even though it's only 16.
0:55.5	Here in Chelsea, it's minus 8 Celsius. It feels like minus 13. It is sunny, but it doesn't matter
1:02.7	because the angle is too low to do any warming. And it's supposed to go to minus 14 tonight.
1:11.6	This is the coldest I have ever experienced here in the northeast.
1:17.2	Also joining us from Austin, Texas.
1:19.7	Rich Condit.
1:20.9	Hi, everybody.
1:22.6	We have 52 degrees Fahrenheit and cloudy.
1:27.4	That's chilly.
1:30.7	We've had several days of freezing temperatures at night,
1:36.6	which means that Jack Frost has come through and rebooted my garden,
1:41.7	which is good.
1:42.5	I'm happy with that.
1:45.7	We have two more, I guess, tonight.
1:49.2	Yeah, tonight and tomorrow night.
1:50.9	Two more sub-freezing nights in the long-range forecast, and then I think winter's over.
1:59.3	But it has been cold.
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