Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Eric F. Donaldson
On episode #90 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, Rich and Eric discuss identification of viruses in Northeastern American bats, vaccinia virus infection after sexual contact with a military vaccinee, and identification of a new flavivirus from an Old World bat in Bangladesh.
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Links for this episode:
- Vaccinia virus infection after sexual contact with vaccinee
- Smallpox vaccination overview
- Smallpox vaccine lesions (jpg)
- Smallpox hospital, Roosevelt Island, NY (photo 1, photo 2)
- Isolation of a flavivirus from bats in Bangladesh (PLoS Pathogens)
- Review on hepatitis G virus
- Dickson has been teaching at Singularity University and fishing in Bozeman MT (jpg)
- Letters read on TWiV 90
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Eric – Year of Darwin by Sean Carroll
Rich – March of the Penguins
Alan – Standing-height desks
Vincent – DengueWatch (thanks Richard!)
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