TWiV 965: Asking Esper Kallas for some I.D.

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

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🗓️ 18 December 2022

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Brazilian infectious diseases physician Esper Kallas returns to TWiV to discuss the state of viral diseases in his country, including those cause by Zika, dengue, and yellow fever viruses, MPOX, and SARS-CoV-2. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove Guest: Esper Kallas Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support MicrobeTV with a Spike t-shirt (Vaccinated.us) with promo code MicrobeTV International Scientific Coordinator Position (agajewski at icsnicaragua.org for more info) Viral kinetics in sylvatic yellow fever (J Inf Dis) Safety and efficacy of Butanan-DV (Lancet Inf Dis) Immune responses to CoronaVac (Front Immunol) Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Weekly Picks Alan – A Voyage for Madmen Vincent – Some favorite holiday cookies: pignoli cookies and pfeffernusse Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]

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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 microob TV, this is Twiv, this week in virology, episode 965 recorded on December 16th,
0:20.1	2022. I'm Vincent Drakenelo and you're listening to the podcast all about viruses.
0:26.0	Joining me today from Western Massachusetts, Alan Dove. Good to be here. It is crummy weather here.
0:33.9	It's drizzling and intermittent snow and 34 Fahrenheit, one Celsius and just that raw cold
0:41.7	that we get in our early winter here. Yeah, it's been raining all night here. Some parts north
0:47.5	New York state. It's snow, I understand. Yeah, yeah, actually out in the in the Berkshire,
0:52.0	is just west of me pardon me. Oh, there's a cat. She's been, she's been obnoxiously affectionate
1:00.4	today. That's fine. We don't mind cats out in the Berkshire, is just west of me. They got the
1:04.9	whole bunch of snow and we got a bunch of rain. Well, our guest today is from a place where there
1:09.2	is no snow at the moment. He is returning. He is an infectious diseases specialist and professor
1:16.4	of infectious and parasitic diseases at the University of Somphalo in Brazil. Esper callus,
1:23.0	welcome back. Well, thank you very much, Vincent. Hi, Alan. It's a pleasure to be here again.
1:27.5	What's the temperature down there now? Yeah, so I just put it off by weather app here. It's 22 degrees.
1:36.9	It's a beautiful day. It's 5 p.m. It's 5 p.m. in the afternoon and blows skies. Really nice
1:46.9	weather. It's nice to be. Sounds good, doesn't it, doesn't it? Yeah, wouldn't mind that.
1:53.9	Yeah, Esper was last on twid 383, which was in April of 2016 and the big topic back then was
2:01.2	Zika virus. That was a virus. Everybody was, I actually just went back and listened to that episode.
2:05.5	It's just, it's from a different time. It's, you know, which, which both, it feels like it was a
2:13.3	long time ago and also like it was not a long time ago because of that weird pandemic
2:19.0	distortion that we had. That got in between, yeah. But we'll talk a little bit about that. Before
2:23.6	we start, I have a couple of announcements. This is your last chance to get a spike T-shirt.
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