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Virology blog receives award at researchblogging.org

17 Comments / Events / By Vincent Racaniello

Virology blog has been honored with a Seed Media Group Research Blogging Award for the best blog of 2010 in the area of clinical research. Seed Media Group’s Research Blogging Awards recognize the outstanding bloggers who discuss peer-reviewed research at ResearchBlogging.org. There you can find over 1,000 registered blogs with 10,000 posts about peer-reviewed journal articles. …

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Radio Sandy Springs interview

2 Comments / Events, Information / By Vincent Racaniello

I was recently interviewed on Radio Sandy Springs by Sharon Sanders of FluTrackers. We talked about pandemic influenza H1N1 virus. Listen to the show below. [audio:https://www.virology.ws/InfectiousDiseaseJan042010.mp3 | titles=Infectious Disease Hour] Download Infectious Disease Hour January 4 2010 (20 MB .mp3, 57 minutes) Radio Sandy Springs 1620 AM is a low-powered Atlanta-based talk radio station that …

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Smallpox in New York City, 1947

12 Comments / Events, Information / By Vincent Racaniello

Millions of New Yorkers were immunized against smallpox within a few weeks in April 1947. The stimulus for this mass immunization was the importation of smallpox by a businessman who had acquired the disease during his travels. While we are in the middle of a massive influenza immunization campaign, it is useful to review the …

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Poliovirus on BBC radio

5 Comments / Events, Information / By Vincent Racaniello

At the end of 1981, the year that I had shown that cloned poliovirus DNA is infectious, BBC Radio asked me to do an interview about the work. The name of the show was Science Now but I can’t recall who was the host. Whoever he was, he didn’t understand what I had done and …

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This Week in Parasitism

15 Comments / Events / By Vincent Racaniello

The first episode of our new science podcast, “This Week in Parasitism“, is now available. This Week in Parasitism (TWiP) is a podcast about eukaryotic parasites hosted by Vincent Racaniello and Dick Despommier. Following in the path of their podcast ‘This Week in Virology’ (TWiV), they strive for an informal yet informative conversation about parasites …

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Seasonal influenza vaccine

17 Comments / Events, Information / By Vincent Racaniello

Here at Columbia University Medical Center, all employees and students may receive, at no charge, influenza vaccine every year. I just went to the lobby of the Milstein Hospital, showed my ID, and received the seasonal influenza vaccine. Here is the proof: As I’ve written before, vaccine records provide interesting information. The medical center administration …

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