This Week in Virology
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This Week in Virology
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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TWiV Special: Searching plane poop for viruses
From ESCV 2025, Vincent speaks with Elke Wollants about a project to identify SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses in toilet waste from airplanes.
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TWiV 1147: Breastmilk paradox for norovirus
TWiV reviews multi-country outbreak of Mpox, first face covering ban in Nassau County NY, case of polio in India, more in US accept vaccine misinforma...
TWiV 1146: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses seasonal influenza vaccine recommendations from the CDC, polio vaccine campaign securing mpox vac...
TWiV 1145: Heartbeats and hoofbeats
TWiV reviews a case of polio in Gaza, more Mpox, COVID-19 boosters, effectiveness of Ebola virus vaccine, measles cases across the US, an endogenous r...
TWiV 1144: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses Dr. Fauci’s case of West Nile virus, polio vaccine campaign develops in Gaza, disease that associ...
TWiV 1143: SARS-CoV-2 gone wild, with a side of rice
TWiV discusses WHO declaration of Mpox as a public health emergency of international concern, Sweden reports first case of clade 1b outside of Africa,...
TWiV 1142: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses global transmission of mpox, the different clades of the virus and associated pathogenesis, vacci...
TWiV 1141: Being green with the Red Queen
TWiV discusses the spread of monkeypox virus clade 1b in Africa, COVID drops to tenth leading cause of death in the US, response to detection of polio...
TWiV 1140: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the harms of perpetuating the lab leak hypothesis and the recent ACIP recommendations for the RSV...
TWiV 1139: Long COVID with Dr. Judith Bruchfeld
Vincent travels to the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on 31 May 2024 to meet with Dr. Judith Bruchfeld and discuss her research on the etiology and...
TWiV 1138: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the harms of perpetuating the lab leak hypothesis and the recent ACIP recommendations for the RSV...
TWiV 1137: Dengue is not BANAL
TWiV discusses a twice-yearly antiviral for prevention of AIDS, the WHO pandemic plan, West Nile resurgence in the US, the BANAL SARS-CoV-2 related vi...
TWiV 1136: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses how the pandemic may have effected our trust in physicians and hospitals and if waiting longer to...
TWiV 1135: Resistance is not always futile
TWiV reviews whats going on with measles and its global resurgence, poliovirus found in Gaza, vaccine hesitancy in a community, 14 year old dies of Ni...
TWiV 1134: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses Merck’s RSV preventative monoclonal antibody Clesrovimab before reviewing the recent statistics o...
TWiV 1133: Gain of function makes us safer
TWiV reviews cases of measles in Brooklyn NY and Washington DC, stalling of global childhood vaccination, licenses H5N1 vaccines protect against circu...
TWiV 1132: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr, Daniel Griffin reviews President Biden’s case of COVID, reviews recent statistics on SARS-CoV-2 infection, discusse...
TWiV 1131: Mootant influenza H5N1 virus
TWiV reviews the potential impact on science of the Supreme Court ruling in the Chevron decision, measles in New Hampshire and Vermont, new who propos...
TWiV 1130: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses H5N1 influenza in the bird and cow communities of Colorado and Michigan and dengue in New York an...
TWiV 1129: You never forget the first time you flu
TWiV reviews measles in Kenya, a trial for a intranasal COVID vaccine, dengue in the Florida Keys and in Central/South America, Spain connecting gover...
TWiV 1128: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses the fourth US case of H5N1 human infection and reminds the audience of the definition of “pasteur...
TWiV 1127: Giving prions the (zinc) finger
TWiV discusses secret anti-vax campaign run by Pentagon to undermine China during pandemic, NY governor’s subways mask ban proposal, Colorado bat faci...
TWiV 1126: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses RSV vaccination recommendations and revisions to guidelines before reviewing the recent statistic...
TWiV 1125: Can pig flu viruses go viral?
TWiV reviews criticism of NIAID monkeypox virus experiments by House Republicans, spread of wild poliovirus across Afghanistan and Pakistan, plan to o...
TWiV 1124: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin reviews the recent statistics on SARS-CoV-2 infection, before discussing methods for sterilizing filtering...
TWiV 1123: Europic 2024 in Jyväskylä, Finland
Vincent travels to Europic 2024 in Jyväskylä, Finland to speak with Tapani Hovi and Caroline Tapparel about their careers and their research on entero...
TWiV 1122: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses expanded use of the RSV vaccine by GSK, how the youngest member of the MicrobeTV family was hospi...
TWiV Special: How the pandemic began in Nature, in 5 key points
TWiV rebuts a recent opinion piece which falsely claims that the COVID-19 pandemic began in a lab (it began in Nature). This material has been extract...
TWiV 1121: SARS-CoV2 still didn't come from a lab
TWiV rebuts a recent opinion piece which falsely claims that the COVID-19 pandemic began in a lab (it began in Nature), followed by a discussion of Pa...
TWiV 1120: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin reports the third case of influenza H5N1 infection in a human, this time with respiratory symptoms, an H5 a...
TWiV 1119: Gene editing latent herpes
TWiV reviews viral shedding and antibody responses of men with acute monkeypox virus infection, and gene editing for latent herpes simplex virus infec...
TWiV 1118: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin delves into highly pathogenic H5N1 infection of hunting dogs, dairy cattle, humans and alpacas before revie...
TWiV 1117: Pol dances with the RNA that brought it
TWiV discusses presence of infectious avian H5N1 influenza virus in raw milk from infected dairy cows. dynamics of measles immunity from birth and fol...
TWiV 1116: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin delves highly pathogenic H5N1 biology including its circulation in New York City, being able to infect cell...
TWiV 1115: Calling the CoPs on flu
TWiV reviews results of a phase 3 trial of a self-amplifying mRNA COVID-19 vaccine, and the finding that baseline innate and T cell populations are co...
TWiV 1114: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin delves into discussing drinking “raw” milk possessing H5N1 influenza virus, if the virus can reproduce in t...
TWiV 1113: Influenza virus H5N1 in cows' milk with Richard Webby
Richard Webby joins TWiV to review the history of avian H5N1 influenza virus, the recent change in epidemiological patterns, infection of dairy cattle...
TWiV 1112: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin deep dives into infections of dairy cattle with high pathogenic influenza H5N1, how long virus has been cir...
TWiV 1111: Taming of the flu
TWiV reviews viruses in the news: Chinese scientist who released the SARS-CoV-2 genome sequence sleeps in the street, a case of measles in Haifa, spre...
TWiV 1110: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin begins with discussing if the antibiotic neomycin is really a pan-antiviral countermeasure, then reviews th...