India polio-free for one year
…polio free for one year. This achievement represents a remarkable turnaround for India, where control of the disease had for years been extremely difficult. As recently as 2009 there were…
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Transgenic mice susceptible to poliovirus
…with David Baltimore, I became interested in how the virus causes disease. There were no convenient animal models to study poliovirus pathogenesis, so I began to think about the cellular…
Unusual mortality pattern of 1918 influenza A virus
…influenza virus is a key predictor of virulence of a pandemic strain. Antibodies against the stalk of the HA protein protect against severe disease, but only within groups of HA…
FDA clears rotavirus vaccines
The US Food and Drug Administration has updated its recommendations on both Rotarix and RotaTeq, vaccines for the prevention of rotavirus disease in infants: Based on careful evaluation of a…
Twenty-six lectures in virology
…disease, and how to prevent infection. The first half of the course explores the viral replication cycle, including attachment and entry, genome replication, protein synthesis, and assembly. In the second…
Viruses and obesity?
…field day with headlines like ‘Can a common cold virus really make you fat’?. Reactions on Twitter and blogs ranged from disbelief to outrage to ‘what will they think of…