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This Week in Virology

Vincent Racaniello

Frequency: 1 episode/3d. Total Eps: 102

This Week in Virology is a netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick.

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TWiV 1256: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

Episode 1256

Saturday, September 27, 2025 • Duration 42:35

TWiV 1255: Virologists in Greece

Episode 1255

Sunday, September 21, 2025 • Duration 32:40

Vincent travels to Thessaloniki, Greece to attend the 27th meeting of the European Society for Clinical Virology, where he speaks with Pamela Vallely, ESCV President, and Piotr Kramarz, Chief Scientist, European CDC, about the activities of ESCV and ECDC.

Host: Vincent Racaniello

Guests: Piotr Kramarz and Pamela Vallely

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

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TWiV 1247: In the company of vaccines with Stanley Plotkin

Episode 1247

Sunday, August 24, 2025 • Duration 01:48:05

Stanley Plotkin joins TWiV to recount his career as a vaccinologist, having participated in the development of vaccines for polio, rabies, and rubella, and his thoughts on the current anti-science, anti-public health, and anti-vaccine climate.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Stanley A. Plotkin

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Support science education at MicrobeTV
Stanley Plotkin (History of Vaccines)
Talking about vaccines with Dr. Plotkin (CHOP)
Path to eradication of rubella (Vaccine)
Status of cytomegalovirus vaccine (J Inf Dis)
Human diploid cell vaccines (Dev Biol Stand)
IPV an essential part of polio eradication (Clin Inf Dis)
Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

TWiV 1246: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

Episode 1246

Saturday, August 23, 2025 • Duration 53:31

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello discusses outbreaks of Vibrio vulnificus and Legionnaire’s disease in Harlem, the role of the American Association of Pediatrics defining immunization practices, before Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, effective of the high and low does influenza vaccines, association Gullian-Barre syndrome with RSV vaccination, guidelines for using RSV vaccines, whether or not the NB.1.8.1 should be included in the fall 2025 vaccines, where to find PEMGARDA, long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, vascular aging after COVID-19 and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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Department of Public Health alerts public to rare Vibrio vulnificus bacteria in coastal waters (Mass.gov)
Legionnaires’ Disease: In Harlem (NYC Health)
Ivermectin to Control Malaria (NEJM)
AAP has been on childhood vaccine recommendations since 1930s

TWiV 1245: Grabbing herpesvirus with both arms

Episode 1245

Sunday, August 17, 2025 • Duration 01:48:49

TWiV reviews fradulent science becoming an industry, FDA may not authorize Pfizer COVID vaccine for young kids, Kennedy won’t push strict pesticide regulations conserved betacoronavirus sequences recognized by human T cells, and Bispecific antibodies protect against herpes recurrent disease.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Brianne Barker

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Frontiers in Comparative Systems Virology
Fradulent science becomes an industry (Science)
FDA may not authorize Pfizer COVID vaccine for young kids (CIDRAP)
Kennedy Won’t Push Strict Pesticide Regulations (NY Times)

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TWiV 1244: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

Episode 1244

Saturday, August 16, 2025 • Duration 42:43

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello discusses Vijay Prasad’s return to the FDA, revoking of COVID vaccine authorization for young children, the Legionnaires’ outbreak in Harlem, the new labeling requirements for Ixchiq, the infectious attenuated Chikungunya vaccine and the importation of H5 influenza virus in Antarctica, before Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, guidelines for treating COVID-19, whether or not the NB.1.8.1 should be included in the fall 2025 vaccines, where to find PEMGARDA, long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, the association of “virus rebound” and post-acute sequelae among hospitalized patients, how virus infection particularly influenza and SARS-CoV-2 may ‘re-activate’ dormant cancer cells and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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Prasad returns to the FDA (Washington Post)
Pfizer Covid vaccine for young children may not be renewed by FDA (The Guardian)
Report suggests FDA may not reauthorize Pfizer COVID vaccine for (CIDRAP)

TWiV 1243: Capitalism, COVID, and cancer

Episode 1243

Sunday, August 10, 2025 • Duration 01:52:48

TWiV discusses the latest worrisome Executive Order on oversight of federal grantmaking, RFK Jr winds down mRNA viral vaccine development, Lenacapavir, a drug for AIDS prevention and treatment, and how respiratory virus infections awaken dormant metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit and Brianne Barker

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Oversight of Federal grantmaking (Whitehouse.gov)
Grantmaking gets a Christofascist (Rasmussen Retorts)
HHS winds down mRNA vaccine development (HHS)

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TWiV 1242: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

Episode 1242

Saturday, August 9, 2025 • Duration 47:17

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello re-address the dangers of drinking raw milk, the Legionnaire’s outbreak in Harlem and results of a vaccine knowledge survey done by emergency departments before Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, reports of influenza-associated acute necrotizing encephalopathy or neuropsychiatric events in children, whether or not the NB.1.8.1 should be included in the fall 2025 vaccines, the effectiveness of Pfizer and MODERNA vaccines against the JN.1 variant, risk of children developing severe disease from SARS-CoV-2 infection, where to find PEMGARDA, long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, the association of “virus rebound” and post-acute sequelae among hospitalized patients, effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines against long COVID, predictors for distinct COVID-19 sequelae including immune disturbances and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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Florida Department of Health Provides Update on Raw Milk(Florida Health)
Raw milk linked to 21 E coli, Campylobacter infections in Florida (CIDRAP)
: In Harlem (NYC Health)

TWiV 1241: The most beautiful experiment

Episode 1241

Sunday, August 3, 2025 • Duration 01:57:12

TWiV reports the administration putting a choke hold on billions of NIH health research funding, US Senators tell scientists they want to protect the NIH budget, then review a classic experiment showing the mechanism of DNA replication, and explain how jumbo phage DNA is transcribed in a membrane-bound compartment before transfer into proteinaceous “nucleus” compartment.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, Brianne Barker, Jolene Ramsey, and Angela Mingarelli

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Support science education at MicrobeTV 5:13
Chokehold on billions in NIH funding (WSJ)

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TWiV 1254: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

Episode 1254

Saturday, September 20, 2025 • Duration 51:41

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello lament the anti-vaccine, anti-science composition of the ACIP, US cases of Chagas disease, the Ebola vaccination campaign in the DRC, the death of an infant in LA due to measles complications (SSPE), before Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics on the measles epidemic, RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, use of monoclonal antibodies against influenza, the lack of adverse effects of the COVID-19 mRNA in both non-pregnant and pregnant women, where to find PEMGARDA, long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, immune cell infiltration into the central nervous system during long COVID and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research.

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Northeast US states form health alliance in response to federal vaccine limits (Reuters)
MEETING OF THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON IMMUNIZATION PRACTICES (ACIP) (CDC: ACIP)
Viewpoint: for understanding this week’s ACIP meeting (CIDRAP)