On This Week in Virology #13, Vincent and Alan talk about President-elect Obama's choices for his science advisors, SARS sensationalism, a new enteric picornavirus, and the top 10 virology stories of 2008. Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #13 TWiV's top 10 virology stories of 2008: ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added a new RSS feed called 'CDC Flu'. This feed will keep track of any new or updated documents posted anywhere on the CDC Flu Website. This website has a great deal of useful information about influenza, including weekly activity reports, recommendation on ...

The other day I noted the 100th anniversary of the discovery of poliovirus. In the event that you were wondering what was the first virus identified, here is a list of early virus discoveries. Remember, these viruses were certainly around long before humans found them. 1892 - Dimitrii Ivanovsky observed ...

President-elect Barack Obama has named Harold Varmus as a co-chair of the Presidents' Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), a team that will work with White House science adviser John Holdren. Varmus won a Nobel Prize in 1989 for his work on elucidating how retroviruses cause transformation of cells. ...

The CDC has issued a health advisory which indicates that a high number of currently circulating H1N1 influenza viruses are resistant to the antiviral drug oseltamivir. Fifty H1N1 isolates obtained in the U.S. since October 2008 were examined for drug sensitivity; 98% of these isolates are resistant to oseltamivir. Influenza H3N2 ...