This Week in Virology (TWiV) #129: We've got mail

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dickson Despommier, and Rich Condit

Vincent, Alan, Dickson and Rich answer listener questions about XMRV, yellow fever vaccine, virus-like particles, West Nile virus, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and human endogenous retroviruses, multiplicity of infection, and how to make a poxvirus.

Right-click to download TWiV #129 (67 MB .mp3, 93 minutes).

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Links for this episode:

• HTLV-2 sequences in patients with CFIDS
• Self-assembling virus (YouTube)
• BookFinder
• Ilya's photo (jpg)
• Discussion about CROI at ViroBlogy
• Land cover and West Nile virus disease (Am Journ Trop Med Hyg)
• Construction of recombinant poxviruses (Methods Mol Biol)
• Geographic Information System
• TWiV on Facebook
• Letters read on TWiV 129

Weekly Science Picks

Rich - Polyxeni Potter and EID covers
Dickson - American Museum of Natural History
Alan - Moon Trees (EurekAlert! article)
Vincent - Infection Landscapes

Listener Picks of the Week

Didier  - The Vaccines (MySpace)
/Sven-Urban - The Science of Discworld by Terry Pratchett
Garren - Omega Tau podcast

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