TWiV reviews susceptibility to vaccine-preventable infections in asylum seekers, the economic power of vaccines, French university tries to bury its investigation of a faculty member’s ethical lapses, transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in New Zealand before and after COVID-19, and a germ line encoded antibody that recognizes a broad array of enveloped viruses.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker
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- Susceptibility to infections in asylum seekers (NEJM) 12:41
- RSV hospitalization in adults (JAMA Net Open) 14:34
- Ethics failings at French university (Science) 15:18
- RSV transmission in New Zealand (Nat Commun) 18:58
- Glycan reactive IgM binds multiple viruses (SciImmunol) 40:11
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Rich – Astroscale
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Unfortunatly Welkins Pick costs about 170 euros in Europe…sad. Sounds like a very interisting read.
Re viral infection through the eye – I’m pretty sure that there has been an cluster of conjunctivitis caused by adenovirus infection in shipyards in the US. Apparently, the shipyard workers used to get shards of metal in their eyes pretty frequently. When that happened, they would go to see the guy who was the best at pulling out the small fragments of steel with his pliers. Unfortunately, the set of pliers he used got contaminated with adenovirus, and so this practice caused a small epidemic of conjunctivitis.
Moral of the story – medical equipment needs to be sterile, and always wear eye protection when using machine tools.
Source – Collier and Oxford’s Human Virology, IIRC.