This Week in Virology #90: Guano happens

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Eric F. Donaldson

On episode #90 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent, Alan, Rich and Eric discuss identification of viruses in Northeastern American bats, vaccinia virus infection after sexual contact with a military vaccinee, and identification of a new flavivirus from an Old World bat in Bangladesh.

Download TWiV #90 (64 MB .mp3, 89 minutes)

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Links for this episode:

• Vaccinia virus infection after sexual contact with vaccinee


• Smallpox vaccination overview


• Smallpox vaccine lesions (jpg)


• Smallpox hospital, Roosevelt Island, NY (photo 1, photo 2)


• Isolation of a flavivirus from bats in Bangladesh (PLoS Pathogens)


• Review on hepatitis G virus


• Dickson has been teaching at Singularity University and fishing in Bozeman MT (jpg)


• Letters read on TWiV 90

Weekly Science Picks

Eric - Year of Darwin by Sean Carroll
Rich - March of the Penguins
Alan - Standing-height desks
Vincent - DengueWatch (thanks Richard!)

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