TWiV 1315: Jabs for bats

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2026

⏱️ 110 minutes

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TWiV explains a study showing that the wildlife trade, including live-animal markets, is a major driver of animal-to-human pathogen transmission, and ecological vaccination, a strategy to prevent zoonotic spillover from bats. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Angela Mingarelli 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) Bernard Roizman passes (Wikipedia) Maturation of a scientist (Ann Rev Virology) Wildlife trade drives pathogen transmission (Science) Ecological vaccination of bats (Sci Adv) Letters read on TWiV 1315 Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Weekly Picks Angela – Real-time tracking of pathogen evolution Rich – A Precarious Perch; Suwannee’s track; Avian Research and Conservation Institute Alan – Bookshop.org Vincent – The Mysterious 30 Year Journey of Apollo 12 Listener Picks Fernando – Sean M. Carroll’s series “The Biggest Ideas in the Universe”: “Space, Time, and Motion”, and “Quanta and Fields.” 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.
0:10.3	From Microbb TV, this is Twiv, this week in Virology, episode 1315, recorded on April 17th, 2026.
0:24.1	I'm Vincent Rackeniello, and you're listening to the podcast All About Viruses.
0:29.6	Joining me today from Austin, Texas, Rich Condit.
0:33.1	Hi there, Vincent.
0:34.8	We've got 84 degrees Fahrenheit, and right now cloudy, there's occasional patches of sun.
0:42.0	I think that this is pretty much a seasonal weather, maybe a little on the warm side.
0:50.7	We're about to get, McFadden is about to send us a little cold blast here.
0:55.3	It's going to be high of 66 on Monday, which is fine with me.
1:01.4	Yeah, it's interesting.
1:02.6	It's been more unseasonably warm here.
1:04.7	Today it's 24 and cloudy.
1:07.1	It's a bit of rain.
1:08.3	But next week, it's going to go back down into the threes and fives overnight, you know.
1:12.9	But that's like spring here in the northeast. It doesn't settle down until almost summer.
1:18.5	So joining us from Montreal, Canada, Angela Mingarelli. Hello, everyone. So, Rich, your cold weather is our very nice weather today. Today it is 18, which I think is like 65 Fahrenheit. And I was, people are outside in T-shirts. They think it's great. It's literally the warmest it's been all year. But also, Vincent, we are going down again to zero, I think, on Monday or minus three or something
1:46.5	overnight.
1:47.1	But anyway, I'm going to go outside for a walk after the podcast and definitely take advantage
1:51.8	of the warm weather.
1:53.5	As soon as it gets warm, the students don't come to class anymore, right?
1:57.4	So my virology class still has a couple of weeks left.
2:00.5	And suddenly,
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