TWiV reviews the vials labeled smallpox that were not, re-emergence of enterovirus D68 in Europe, efficacy of inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine, and cellular correlates of protection for an oral influenza virus vaccine.
TWiV 496: Vaccines work, whether or not you believe in them
- June 3, 2018
- Tagged as: adjuvant, adverse events, Autism, hpv, influenza, measles, mmr, Vaccine, vaccine exemptions, VAERS, viral, virology, virus, viruses
Vincent and Rich recorded this episode at Vaccines in the 21st Century, a meeting held at the University of California, Irvine, where they spoke with Stacy Schultz-Cherry, Douglas Diekema, and Andrew Noymer about vaccine facts and fiction.
TWiV 403: It’s not easy being vaccine
- August 21, 2016
- Tagged as: adjuvant, AS04, cold chain, efficacy, flumist, herpes zoster, influenza, influenza vaccine, IPV, LAIV, mitochondria, OPV, plant, poliovirus, shingles, thermostable, Vaccine, vaccine efficacy, viral, virology, virus, viruses, Zostavax
The TWiV team takes on an experimental plant-based poliovirus vaccine, contradictory findings on the efficacy of Flumist, waning protection conferred by Zostavax, a new adjuvanted subunit zoster vaccine.
TWiV 356: Got viruses?
- September 27, 2015
- Tagged as: adjuvant, baculovirus, bracovirus, caterpillar, chemokine, Cortesia congregata, DNA, DNA vaccine, gut virome, horizontal gene transfer, IgA, in vivo electroporation, kwashiorkor, lepidoptera, Malawi, malnutrition, marasmus, mucosal immunity, nudivirus, parasitic wasp, ready to use therapeutic food, rutf, simian immunodeficiency virus, siv, viral, virology, virus
Stephanie joins the super professors to discuss the gut virome of children with serious malnutrition, caterpillar genes acquired from parasitic wasps, and the effect of adding chemokines to a simian immunodeficiency virus DNA vaccine.
Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Dickson review influenza vaccines.
The TWiV four discuss an mRNA-based influenza vaccine, and a phage tubulin that forms a filamentous array in the host cell that is needed for positioning viral DNA.
Vincent and Alan discuss influenza vaccines with LJ Tan of the American Medical Association.
Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Cliff answer questions from listeners on swine influenza origins, transmission, virulence, and vaccines, HIV and AIDS, and more.
TWiV 50: XMRV
- September 20, 2009
- Tagged as: adjuvant, guillain-barré, H1N1, influenza, mf59, pandemic, retrovirus, swine flu, Vaccine, viral, virology, virus, XMRV
Vincent and Jason review influenza 2009 H1N1 vaccine trials and protection against the virus conferred by the 1976 swine flu vaccine, then move on to a virus called XMRV and its possible role in prostate cancer.
Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Jennifer Drahos tackle the Hendra virus disease outbreak in Australia, AIDS-like disease in wild chimps, return of polio type 2 in Nigeria, the influenza pandemic wave, and rabies in three countries.