On the final episode of the year of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiV team reviews twelve cool virology stories from 2012. You can find TWiV #213 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.

On a special episode of the science show This Week in Virology, Vincent and Stuart Firestein, author of Ignorance, discuss why ignorance €“ all of what we don't know, and even what we don't know we don't know €“ is the driving force of science. You can find this TWiV Special ...

On episode #212 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiVerers answer listener email about genetically modified chickens, a hendra vaccine for horses, online education, curing color blindness, Roosevelt and polio, Th cells, and much more. You can find TWiV #212 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.

An outbreak of ten cases of poliomyelitis caused by circulating vaccine-derivied poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) is ongoing in Pakistan, centered in the Kila Abdulla/Pishin area of Baluchistan. The same virus strain has spread to the neighboring Kandahar province in Afghanistan, where two paralytic cases have been reported. Vaccine-derived poliomyelitis is ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released its latest estimates on the number of new HIV infections in the United States: HIV remains a serious health problem, with an estimated 47,500 people becoming newly infected with the virus in the United States in 2010. Youth make up 7% of ...