This Week in Virology #35: Much achoo about nothing

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dick Despommier, and Richard Kessin

Vincent, Alan, Dick, and Richard Kessin talk about Lujo virus, a new arenavirus, influenza, WHO rewriting pandemic rules, adjuvants, and a brief history of microbiology.



Links for this episode:
Lujo virus, a new arenavirus
Is CDC too optimistic about influenza?
WHO to rewrite pandemic rules
Adjuvant at wikipedia
Avery, MacLeod, McCarty 50th anniversary (pdf)
Pasteur's swan-neck flask



Broth was placed in a flask, boiled, and the neck was heated and drawn out. The broth was open to the air, but remained sterile as long as microbe-containing dust collected in the neck and did not reach the liquid.

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Dick Three papers on origins of infectious diseases (one, two, three)
Rich An Imperfect Lens by Anne Roiphe
Alan Zotero, a FireFox plugin
Vincent e! Science News


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