Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
On episode 98 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, and Rich review the finding of murine leukemia virus-related sequences in the blood of CFS patients and healthy donors, laboratory inventories for wild poliovirus containment, weaving high-performance viral batteries into fabric for the military, and a case of human rabies in Indiana.
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Links for this episode:
- MLV-related sequences in blood of CFS patients (commentary)
- Laboratory inventories for poliovirus containment
- Viral batteries for the military (abstract) – also see TWiV 28
- Human rabies, Kentucky/Indiana, 2009
- Letters read on TWiV 98
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