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 1285: Encapsidating viruses 2025
TWiV reviews compelling virology themes for 2024, as heard in our 98 episodes, including 22 guests.
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TWiV 1284: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Recording after the ball drops, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello wish everyone a Happy New Year, discuss an evidence-based approach to teaching and...
TWiV 1282: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
Calling out "Happy Christmas to all and to all a good-night, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss high path influenza in dairy herds in Wiscons...
TWiV 1280: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello protest Vinjay Prasad, head of CBER FDA Nov memo stating administration of the COVID...
TWiV 1279: Let hepatitis b
TWiV reviews considerations and perspectives on phage therapy, and the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of hepatitis b virus.
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TWiV 1277: Vaccine talk with Jake Scott
Infectious diseases physician Jake Scott returns to TWiV to discuss the dangerous anti-vaccine policies being established in the US and what RFK Jr. a...
TWiV 1276: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello discuss the positive side effect of the shingles vaccine on dementia outcomes and ho...
TWiV 1275: An amazing sequence and a gutsy therapy
TWiV explains the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of pre-mRNA splicing, and engineering bacteriophage to deliver proteins to the human intestine.
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TWiV 1274: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving and then decry appointment of the Louisiana State...
TWiV 1273: EBV and lupus have not escaped our notice
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...
TWiV 1272: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello are dismayed by the changes on CDC vaccine website positively stating the link betwe...
TWiV 1271: Hokies go viral II
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 V...
TWiV 1270: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello record from the ASTMH meeting in Toronto and discuss continuing avian flu outbreaks,...
TWiV 1269: The smell of influenza in the morning
TWiV reviews the passing of James D. Watson, the research that showed human papillomaviruses to be present in genital and laryngeal papillomas and in...
TWiV 1268: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello discusses the link between in utero SARS-CoV-2 infection and poor neurodevelopment...
TWiV 1267: A cancer vaccine and an mpox treatment
TWiV discusses the impact of vaccinating with Gardasil-9 adult women who are human papillomavirus positive or with confirmed squamous intraepithelial...
TWiV 1266: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello ponder the nomination of Casey Means for Surgeon General by President Trump, how mRN...
TWiV 1265: mRNA vaccines make cancer treatment great again
TWiV explains studies showing that SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines improve life span of cancer patients on checkpoint immunotherapy, and broad immunity confe...
TWiV 1264: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello are distressed by the continuing government shutdown, first locally acquired chikun...
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...