India polio-free for one year
…741 confirmed cases of polio caused by wild-type virus (as opposed to vaccine-derived virus) in India. The tide turned in 2010 with only 42 confirmed polio cases, and in calendar…
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Norton Zinder, 1928-2012
Norton Zinder made two important discoveries in the field of virology. While a Ph.D. student with Joshua Lederberg at the University of Wisconsin-Madison he found that viruses of bacteria (bacteriophages)…
Evidence for influenza H5N1 infections in humans
…and thus, the true fatality rate for H5N1 influenza viruses is likely to be less than the frequently reported rate of more than 50%. It seems very clear that standardized,…
Educating the world about microbes
…at the SGM meeting in Dublin I recorded TWiV 177 with Connor Bamford, Wendy Barclay, Richard Elliott and Ron Fouchier. Audio and video will be posted on 1 April 2012….
More evidence for mild influenza H5N1 infections
…infectious virus to measure its ability to block infection (virus neutralization or hemaggultination-inhibition), or used to detect antibodies to viral proteins (ELISA or western blot). Another option for assessing previous…
Earth’s virology professor
…we discussed the basic principles of virology, including how virions are built, how they replicate, and how they cause disease. Yesterday was the 26th and last lecture in the course,…