TWiV 1313: Maybe they're all dementia vaccines

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2026

⏱️ 116 minutes

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TWiV reviews evidence that influenza standard and high-dose vaccines reduce risk of Alzheimer’s dementia, and spread of deltaviruses by a viral Trojan horse mechanism. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV Positions in Rosenfeld Lab (email) Dennis O’Callaghan passes (Wikipedia, LSU) Reduced dementia risk after influenza vaccine (Neurology) Deltaviruses spread via Trojan Horse (Cell) Letters read on TWiV 1313 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Rich – The Path of Artemis II Alan – Climate change is causing cherry blossoms to miss their peak blooms in Japan Vincent – The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene Listener Picks Ann – Artemis II Launch – 7.5 Seconds in Slo-Mo Torsten – ‘This feels fragile’: how a satellite-smashing chain reaction could spiral out of control 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	This Week in Virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.
0:10.4	From MicrobTV, this is Twiv, this week in Virology.
0:15.7	Episode 1313 recorded on April 10th, 2026.
0:22.9	I'm Vincent Rackeniello and you're listening to the podcast All About Viruses.
0:28.2	Joining me today from Western Massachusetts, Alan Dove.
0:32.6	It's good to be here.
0:33.6	And it is a lovely spring day.
0:36.4	It's a little breezy, but it's 67 Fahrenheit 19C and just nice clear blue skies.
0:44.8	Love it.
0:45.8	I got up this morning.
0:46.9	It was just above freezing.
0:48.5	I had to wear gloves in a cap.
0:50.1	Sure.
0:51.2	Now it's 18C and sunny here, which seems like pretty good, but it's going to, it's going down already.
0:58.0	Yeah, it's spring.
0:59.0	It's not summer yet.
1:00.0	It's going to be five overnight.
1:04.0	Next week, the overnights are going to be 1516, right?
1:08.5	Yeah.
1:08.8	We're starting to get a little better and we've got rain. Also joining us from Austin, Texas, Rich Condett. Howdy, everybody. So we've got, I think we did
1:21.2	several weeks ago, fake spring. Yes, right. And then we did fake summer, punctuated with some fake fall.
1:31.2	And I think we may have real spring now.
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