This Week in Virology #79: Red hot chili viruses

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove

On episode #79 of the podcast "This Week in Virology", Vincent and Alan converse about making published science accessible to everyone, global eradication of poliomyelitis, and whether a plant virus can cause disease in humans.

Download TWiV #79 (51 MB .mp3, 71 minutes)

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Links for this episode:

• Making published science accessible to everyone (Nature News)


• Federal Research Public Access Act


• Is disease eradication a waste of money?


• Do we have an ethical obligation to eradicate polio?


• Signs of progress in polio eradication (NY Times)


• Polio eradication: Harder than it looks (Fortner)


• Gates rethinks his war on polio (WSJ)


• Asymptomatic wild-type poliovirus infection in immune children (J Inf Dis)


• Can a plant virus cause disease in humans? (PLoS One)


• Replication of tomato spotted wilt virus in HeLa cells (PNAS)


• Glycine detected in comet (thanks Vincent!)

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