The zoonotic pool
…field of pathogen discovery, of which Ian Lipkin and Joe DeRisi are masters. Morse, SS. 1993. Emerging viruses. Oxford University Press. Lipkin WI 2008. Pathogen Discovery. PLoS Pathog 4(4): e1000002….
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Ebola in pigs – Nipah redux?
…sequence pool. I also find curious the statement by Dr. Thomas G. Ksiazek, from the University of Texas Medical School in Galveston, that It’s probably a rare event that pigs…
John Updike, 1932-2009
…is still tacked to my corkboard, yellowing and frayed. V.B. Nimble, V.B. Quick (inspired by V.B. Wigglesworth, F.R.S., Quick Professor of Biology at the University of Cambridge) V.B. Wigglesworth wakes…
Offit on vaccines and autism
…a pediatrician who is also Chief of Infectious Diseases and Director of Vaccine Education at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He is co-developer of the rotavirus vaccine and…
Could Rift Valley fever come to the US?
…disease is completely inconsistent with Lockwood’s description. There are other bothersome errors in the passage. The writer calls Rift Valley Fever a ‘mosquito borne disease’, but readers of virology blog…
The number of possible viral variants
If you have been following our discussion of quasispecies here on virology blog, you might be wondering exactly how many possible variants there are for a viral genome. The answer…