TWiV Special: Searching plane poop for viruses

This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

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

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🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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From ESCV 2025, Vincent speaks with Elke Wollants about a project to identify SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses in toilet waste from airplanes. Host: Vincent Racaniello Guest: Elke Wollants Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Support science education at MicrobeTV Laboratory for Clinical and Epidemiological Virology (KU Leuven) Virologists in Greece (TWiV 1255 from ESCV) Airplane wastewater surveillance for pathogens (SSRN) Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected] 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.
0:10.0	Hi, everybody. I'm Vincent Rackenielo, and I am in Thessaloniki, Greece for the ESCV meeting.
0:20.2	That's the European Society for Clinical Virology.
0:25.2	And I did a podcast earlier,
0:27.6	but I thought it would be interesting to speak with some people
0:31.7	one-on-one about the work that they're doing.
0:35.1	So we're on the top floor of this lovely convention center.
0:40.4	And it's maybe a little windy and a little noisy, but bear with us.
0:44.6	Maybe if you're nice, I will show you the rest of the view later.
0:49.1	And I have a guest today that I met some time ago in Manchester, right?
0:55.8	Yeah.
0:56.3	Why don't you introduce yourself?
0:58.8	Well, I'm Elko Volans.
1:00.9	I'm a lab manager at a virology lab of clinical and epidemiological virology at Kauleuwe.
1:08.7	And that's in Belgium.
1:10.5	And that's in Belgium, indeed.
1:12.5	It's also a research lab.
1:14.8	So we do a lot of research on virology there.
1:19.2	And you told me in, was it Milan?
1:23.9	Yes, it was Milan about a cool project you did on airplanes. Indeed, yes. And I said to you,
1:31.2	we'll cover it on Twiv, but it never got published, right? No, it's still on his way to getting
1:38.1	published because we are also doing new tests on the samples and now we're finalizing the paper and try to get it published.
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