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While I’ve mentioned it a couple of times in the past (here and here), Professor Vincent Racaniello who writes the excellent Virology Blog - which you’ll find in my sidebar - also co-hosts the fascinating TWiV (This Week In Virology) podcast.
Along with Dick Despommier, Racaniello and 1 or 2 guests each week discuss some of the most interesting virology stories of the week. If you aren’t listening, you should be.
There are 58 episodes available. This week’s episode covers:
- Post-exposure passive antibody therapy for Nipah virus in ferret
- Is yearly influenza vaccination of children a bad idea?
- Debate on N95 masks vs surgical masks to prevent influenza
- Weather patterns help predict dengue outbreaks
- Diverse viral community in Antarctica’s icy lakes (thanks Russ!)
Along with several other issues.
I’m slowly going back through the archives, trying to catch up. This is a terrific resource for anyone interested virology, or science.
Recent Episodes
- TWiV 58: Nipah virus in ferrets
- TWiV 57: Virology in high school
- TWiV 56: Perspicuously perspicacious
- TWiV 55: Mice lie, monkeys exaggerate
- TWiV 54: Professor Lynn Enquist, virology luminary
- TWiV 53: The ends justify the means
- TWiV 52: Scott Hammer, MD on AIDS vaccines
- TWiV 51: ALVAC-HIV and AIDSVAX B/E
- TWiV 50: XMRV
- TWiV 49: Viral genomes
If your interests run to parasites (and whose doesn’t?), then you’ll be excited to learn that Racaniello and Despommier have launched TWiP (This week is Parasitism).
Episode 1 is now online
TWiP 1: Introduction to Parasitism
