This Week in Virology

Vincent, Dick, and Aidan discuss how viral infections play prominent roles in notable video games. Three games are discussed: World of Warcraft , Pandemic II , and Bioshock . An article on how World of Warcraft became a model for the transmission of virus infections was published in Lancet Infectious Diseases . The title of the article is “The untapped potential of virtual game worlds to shed ligh...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Dickson was at Pop! Tech last week. Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon . US Geological Survey Disease Maps . CDC page on Hendra and Nipah viruses . The flying fox (Google image search) . Vincent’s virology course . Vincent’s texbook is Principles of Virology , third edition, ASM Press (available December 2008). Science podcast pick of the week: Brain S...

Host: Vincent Racaniello Special guest: Saul Silverstein Dickson Despommier is away this week at Pop! Tech . CDC pages on herpes and zoster (shingles).

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier CDC page on rabies Dick’s Ecology 101 course Ecotone defined Negri bodies defined (down on the page)

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier Article on the mortgage crisis and West Nile virus in Emerging Infectious Diseases. Environment-oriented review of Dengue. Dengue page at the World Health Organization.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier polioeradication.org for the latest information on the global state of polio. Abstract of the Science article on engineering a new polio vaccine: “Virus attenuation by genome-scale changes in codon pair bias”.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier . Buy “ West Nile Story ” by Dickson Despommier. ProMed Mail . The global reporting system for outbreaks of emerging infectious disease. PubMed . A service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. West Nile page at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Great maps of wher...