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TWiV 572: Your EV-D68th nervous breakdown

3 November 2019 by Vincent Racaniello

Amy joins the TWiV team to review evidence that enterovirus D68 is an etiologic agent of childhood paralysis, and her finding that the ability of the virus to infect cells of the nervous system is not a recently acquired property.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: acute flaccid myelitis, AFM, astrocytes, cerebrospinal fluid, CSF, enterovirus D68, neurons, neurotropic, poliovirus, serology, viral, virology, virus, viruses

Neurotropism of enterovirus D68 is not a recently acquired property

24 October 2019 by Vincent Racaniello

EV-D68with Amy Rosenfeld

Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) was first isolated from children with respiratory disease in 1962. No outbreaks of infection were detected until the late summer and early fall of 2014, and then in 2016 and 2018. During these epidemics of respiratory disease, some children developed polio-like paralysis. We have recently published a paper showing that isolates of EV-D68 from 1962 through 2014 are capable of infecting cells of the nervous system, disproving the hypothesis that neurotropism of the virus is a recently acquired phenotype.

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Filed Under: Basic virology, Information Tagged With: acute flaccid myelitis, astrocyte, childhood paralysis, enterovirus D68, neuron, neurotropism, poliovirus, viral, virology, virus, viruses

TWiV 568: Karolinska viral

6 October 2019 by Vincent Racaniello

In the second episode from the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Vincent speaks with Jan Albert, Petter Brodin, and Anna Smed-Sörensen about their work on enterovirus D68, systems immunology, and human pulmonary viral infection and inflammation.

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Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: acute flaccid myelitis, dendritic cell, enterovirus D68, epidemiology, hantavirus, influenza virus, maternal antibodies, mononuclear phagocyte, newborn anti-viral antibodies, placenta, respiratory viral infection, systems immunology, viral, virology, virus, viruses

TWiV 331: Why is this outbreak different from all other outbreaks?

5 April 2015 by Vincent Racaniello

On episode #331 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiV team discusses the possible association of the respiratory pathogen enterovirus D68 with neurological disease.

You can find TWiV #331 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.

Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: acute flaccid myelitis, acute flaccid paralysis, chronic fatigue syndrome, enterovirus, enterovirus D68, mecfs, neurological disease, paralysis, picornavirus, poliomyelitis, poliovirus, viral, virology, virus

New Yorkers like their science from scientists

12 October 2014 by Vincent Racaniello

I cannot pass up the opportunity to point out this wonderful quote by Ginia Ballafante in her NY Times piece, Fear of Vaccines Goes Viral. The article starts by noting an article on plummeting vaccination rates in Los Angeles:

The piece had the virtue of offering New Yorkers yet another opportunity to feel smugly superior to their counterparts in L.A., because of course here on the East Coast we like our science to come from scientists, not from former Playboy models and people who feel entitled to pontificate about public health because they drink kefir.

As a scientist who works in New York, I can’t help but think that this is not entirely true. This idea is supported by a quote in the article from a New York City pediatrician, who says that 10 percent of parents in his practice express opposition to vaccination. If they oppose vaccination, they can’t be getting their information from scientists.

Here is the second best quote from the article, which comes from another New York City pediatrician after a discussion of current Ebola virus and enterovirus D68 outbreaks:

My feeling is that it will take something like that on a very large scale to get upper-middle-class people to realize that this is serious stuff…most of the deaths in the world are from contagious diseases. Not ISIS.

Filed Under: Information Tagged With: anti-vax, ebola virus, enterovirus D68, immunization, vaccination, vaccine, viral, virology, virus

TWiV 302: The sky is falling

14 September 2014 by Vincent Racaniello

On episode #302 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiVers discuss the growing Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, and an epidemic of respiratory disease in the US caused by enterovirus D68.

You can find TWiV #302 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.

Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: aerosol transmission, bsl3, bsl4, containment, ebola virus, enterovirus D68, hemorrhagic fever, mutation, outbreak, picornavirus, respiratory disease, vaccine, viral, virology, virus, West Africa

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