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TWiV 284: By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes

11 May 2014 by Vincent Racaniello

On episode #284 of the science show This Week in Virology, the TWiV team discusses how skin scarification promotes a nonspecific immune response, and whether remaining stocks of smallpox virus should be destroyed.

You can find TWiV #284 at www.microbe.tv/twiv.

Filed Under: This Week in Virology Tagged With: bifurcated needle, intradermal, rabbit, scarification, smallpox, vaccinia virus, viral, virology, virulence, virus, WHO

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