Vincent Racaniello

This Week in Virology

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TWiV is a weekly netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick. Brought to you by four university professors and a science writer.

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Author

Vincent Racaniello

Episodes

TWiV #5 - Herpesviruses 24.10.2008 50:03

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

TWiV #4 - Rabies 17.10.2008 36:33

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

TWiV #3 - Dengue 02.10.2008 42:44

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.

TWiV #2 - Polio is not dead 26.09.2008 49:50

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”.

TWiV #1 - West Nile Virus 24.09.2008 1:31:19

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...