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This Week in Virology

This Week in Virology

By: Vincent Racaniello
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 TWiV is a podcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick.Vincent Racaniello 2022 Biological Sciences Nature & Ecology Science
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  • TWiV 1273: EBV and lupus have not escaped our notice

    TWiV 1273: EBV and lupus have not escaped our notice
    Nov 23 2025

    TWiV explains the 1953 paper by Watson & Crick proposing a structure for DNA, and the role of Epstein-Barr virus in triggering the autoimmune disease systemic lupus erythematosus.

    Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

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    Links for this episode
    • Support science education at MicrobeTV
    • Immune 100 live at the Incubator
    • CDC revives debunked 'link' between childhood vaccines and autism (npr)
    • A structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid (Nature pdf)
    • Three Papers, Three Lessons (Am J Resp Crit Care Med)
    • Discovery of Double Helix (Crick Papers)
    • Jim Watson was blinded by DNA (NY Times)
    • What Rosalind Franklin contributed (Nature)
    • EBV reprograms autoreactive B-cells in lupus (Sci Transl Med)
    • EBV and the making of lupus (Sci Transl Med)
    • Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
    Weekly Picks

    Brianne – Virus snowflakes
    Kathy – When "Physic(k)s Lost Its 'k' and other Language Quarks
    Vincent – The Peripheral by William Gibson

    Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

    Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

    Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.
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    1 hr and 38 mins
  • TWiV 1272: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

    TWiV 1272: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
    Nov 22 2025
    In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are dismayed by the changes on CDC vaccine website positively stating the link between autism and vaccination, the finding of wild type poliovirus 1 in Germany, Marburg virus in Ethiopia, decimation of the elephant breeding colony by H5N1 and the first human case of H5N5 influenza virus infection before Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics on the measles epidemic, RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, antibody escape by seasonal flu viruses, where to find PEMGARDA, how to access and pay for Paxlovid, long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, if resistance exercise aids in recovery from long COVID and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode Autism and Vaccines (CDC: Vaccine Safety)A new road to eradication- WPV 1 in Germany from Afghanistan (Reuters)Ethiopia confirms first outbreak of Marburg virus disease (WHO: Ethiopia)Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Viruses (HPAIV) Associated with Major Southern Elephant Seal Decline at South Georgia (Communications Biology)Avian flu has decimated world's largest breeding colony of southern elephant seals (CIDRAP)Washington resident is infected with a different type of bird flu (AP News)Pelagic Seabirds (OceanAminals)That sounds far away: Multiple transatlantic incursions of highly pathogenic avian influenza clade 2.3.4.4b A(H5N5) virus into North America and spillover to mammals (Cell Reports)Regional voices, different choices: Parents' and caregivers' HPV vaccine attitudes in the northeast and Southeast United States (Vaccine) Wastewater for measles (WasterWater Scan)Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)Tracking Measles Cases in the U.S. (Johns Hopkins)Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg)Weekly measles and rubella monitoring (Government of Canada)Measles (WHO)Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola)) Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC) Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC) Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))Adverse events associated with childhood vaccines: evidence bearing on causality (NLM)Measles Vaccination: Know the Facts (ISDA: Infectious Diseases Society of America)Deaths following vaccination: what does the evidence show (Vaccine)Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)Weekly surveillance report: cliff notes (CDC FluView)ACIP Recommendations Summary (CDC: Influenza)Emergence of seasonal influenza A(H3N2) variants with immune escape potential warrants enhanced molecular and epidemiological surveillance for the 2025–2026 season (University of Toronto Press)Types of Influenza Viruses (CDC: Influenza (flu))With an absent CDC and mismatched 'subclade K' flu strain, experts face upcoming season with uncertainty (CIDRAP)Influenza Vaccine Composition for the 2025-2026 U.S. Influenza Season(FDA)RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan) Respiratory Diseases (Yale School of Public Health)US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection) Long-term impact of nirsevimab on prevention of respiratory syncytial virus infection using a real-word global database (Journal of Infection)Vaccines for Adults (CDC: Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV)) Economic Analysis of Protein Subunit and mRNA RSV Vaccination in Adults aged 50-59 Years (CDC: ACIP)Estimating Risk of Guillain-Barré Syndrome in US Medicare-Enrolled Older Adults Following Medically Attended Respiratory Syncytial Virus Disease (CID) FDA Requires Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) Warning in the Prescribing Information for RSV Vaccines Abrysvo and Arexvy: FDA Safety Communication (FDA)Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)COVID-19 deaths (CDC)Respiratory Illnesses Data Channel (CDC: Respiratory Illnesses)COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC)COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC)SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain)Antigenic and Virological Characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 Variant BA.3.2, XFG, and NB.1.8.1 (bioRxiV)COVID-19 vaccination is associated with reduced complications in pediatric patients with atopic dermatitis (Annals of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology)Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD)Infusion center (Prime Fusions)Risk mitigation of shared room ventilation and filtration on SARS-CoV-2 transmission: a multicenter test-negative study (Infection Control and Hospital ...
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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • TWiV 1271: Hokies go viral II

    TWiV 1271: Hokies go viral II
    Nov 16 2025

    Vincent visits Virginia Tech for the CeZAP Symposium and speaks with XJ Meng and Kylene Kehn-Hall about their research on hepatitis E virus and Rift Valley fever virus.

    Host: Vincent Racaniello

    Guests: XJ Meng and Kylene Kehn-Hall

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    Links for this episode
    • Support science education at MicrobeTV
    • Immune 100 live at the Incubator
    • Hepatitis E virus (Curr Op Micro)
    • Rift Valley fever virus NSs and autophagy (PLoS Path)
    • Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

    Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

    Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

    Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.
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    1 hr and 19 mins
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