TWiV 1089: Shoot out at the Circle-T ranch

TWiV reviews a fatal Alaskapox case, MERS in Kenya, diagnostic tests for Nipah and Lassa diseases, HPV vaccination rates in the US, cases of measles in Arizona and Minnesota, hepatitis C virus-derived RNA circles in infected cells, and prevention of respiratory virus transmission by resident memory CD8+ T cells.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Brianne Barker

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• Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf)
• The New City by Dickson Despommier
• Viruses of Microbes 2024
• Fatal case of Alaskapox (AK Beacon)
• MERS in Kenya (Emerg Inf Dis)
• Diagnostic tests for Nipah and Lassa (CEPI)
• Measles in Arizona and Minnesota
• HCV-derived circular RNAs (PNAS)
• Resident memory CD8 T cells prevent respiratory virus transmission (Nature)
• Letters read on TWiV 1089 1:24:33
• Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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