This Week in Virology #89: Where do viruses vacation?

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove

On episode #89 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent and Alan review recent findings on the association of the retrovirus XMRV with ME/CFS, reassortment of 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in swine, and where influenza viruses travel in the off-season.

Download TWiV #89 (56 MB .mp3, 78 minutes)

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Links for this episode:

• Conflicting XMRV papers on hold


• Leak of PNAS paper


• CDC study on XMRV in CFS patients (Retrovirology) and Science update


• Where influenza viruses travel in the off season (EurekaAlert! and PLoS Pathogens)


• NPR article on Ebola siRNA treatment (thanks, Andreas!)


• Priming mechanism for reovirus entry (thanks, Agyeman-Badu!)


• Wired article on science PR (thanks, Dan!)


• Letters read on TWiV 89

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