TWiV #48 - Outbreaks near you
Sep 06, 2009•1 hr 20 min
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Episode description
Vincent, Dick, Alan and Rich revisit a vaccinia virus lab accident and viral vaccines produced in plants, then talk about an iPhone app to track infectious diseases, flying foxes, and an inhaled measles vaccine.
Links for this episode:- Laboratory acquired vaccinia infection
- Medicago (investor presentation, pdf) and Fraunhofer produce vaccines in plants
- iPhone app Outbreaks near me
- No culling of flying foxes in Australia
- Inhaled powdered measles virus vaccine
- Herpesvirus latency confers symbiotic protection from bacterial infection (thanks Juliet!)
- Porcine circovirus vaccine
- Swine flu vaccine and Guillain-Barré (thanks Tom!)
- The Great Flu and blog post (thanks Swiss compass and Allison!)
- Building semiconductors with DNA (thanks Duncan!)
- Email on viral classification (thanks Rodney and Eliot!)
Rich Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel GilbertDick Eliot Porter at the Carter Museum and bookstore at AmazonAlan Dr. Clarke's H1N1 rap at the HHS sponsored YouTube contestVincent Coast to Coast Bio Podcast
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