This week in virology, the podcast about viruses, the kind that make you sick.

From micro TV, this is twiv this week in virology episode 888 recorded on April 12th,

2022. I'm Vincent Racken yellow and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses

joining me today from Western Massachusetts, Alan Dove. Good to be here and it's um 62 Fahrenheit

the moment, mostly cloudy. We had some rain earlier, but we're in that that spring phase of,

you know, sometimes golden rainy, sometimes threatening to be nice weather. Can you imagine if

it had been August 8th today? Yes, that would have been perfect. 888 also joining us from

Madison, New Jersey, Brienne Barker. Hi, great to be here. I have the other type of spring

weather in that it is 70 Fahrenheit, 21 Celsius and beautifully sunny outside. I don't know what

it is. When I came this morning, it was raining and now I haven't looked outdoors. So I have no idea

if it's nice. Yeah, the weather says it's sunny. We have a guest today who is returning for

a second time. He is from Atlanta, Georgia, Richard Plemper. Welcome back. Thank you. I'm very glad

to be here. So I last recorded with you in October 2019 at Georgia's Georgia State University.

And there have been no interesting developments in virology since then. So we have you back on

to catch up. I didn't release that episode until the following July because in January,

we started doing all COVID. One of the things we did is a paper of yours from, I don't know,

2021, yeah, showing that Monu peer-reviewed blocks transmission and ferrets. I said,

we'll have to get Richard back. So here we are, Richard. Welcome back.

Yes, thank you. When you were in Atlanta, we talked actually about the drag, which was then

not called Monu peer-review at a study that we had just done against influenza virus.

And so we demonstrated in the ferret model that what is now called Monu peer-review is actually

very early efficacious influenza. And at the time that was interesting, but nobody knew

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