Influenza H7N9 gain of function experiments on Dispatch Radio
I spoke with Robert Herriman, executive editor of The Global Dispatch, about the proposed avian influenza H7N9 virus gain of function experiments on Dispatch Radio….
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TWiV 363: Eat flu and dyad
On episode #363 of the science show This Week in Virology, The TWiVers reveal influenza virus replication in the ferret mammary gland and spread to a nursing infant, and selection…
TWiV 441: Don’t ChrY for me influenza
The Beacons of Viral Education (aka the TWiVoners) reveal a cost of being a male mouse – the Y chromosome regulates their susceptibility to influenza virus infection. You can find…
Polio in Pakistan and Afghanistan
…continues to circulate in these countries because insufficent numbers of infants receive three doses of oral polio vaccine – 69% and 64% in Afghanistan and Pakistan, respectively. More importantly, coverage…
Science Fiction or Fact?
…1950s. He suggests that the stocks of oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) that were being used in clinical trials were produced in cultures of kidney cells from chimpanzees that were infected…
Polio is spreading
Today’s NY Times reports that cases of wild polio (as opposed to vaccine-induced polio) are appearing in new countries, and increasing numbers are occurring in countries that are endemic for…