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TWiV 545: Biocrimes and misdemeanors

  • April 28, 2019
  • Tagged as: Australia List Pathogens, biocrime, biodefense, Biopreparat, biosafety, biosecurity, biosurety, bioterrorism, biowarfare, bioweapon, Priority Pathogens, Risk Group Agents, Select Agents, vector, viral, virology, virus, viruses

Jens Kuhn returns to TWiV to explain Select Agents, Priority Pathogens, Australia List Pathogens, Risk Group Agents, biosafety, biosecurity, and biosurety.

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TWiV 508: Bioweapon

  • August 26, 2018
  • Tagged as: biocrime, biodefense, Biopreparat, bioterrorism, biowarfare, bioweapon, Soviet Union, vector, viral, virology, virus, viruses

Jens returns to present a brief history of bioweapons, with a focus on the program in the Soviet Union, the largest ever undertaken, and his experience working in the decommissioned Soviet bioweapons laboratory known as Vector.

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TWiV 270: Homeland virology

  • February 2, 2014
  • Tagged as: antiviral, asm, avian influenza, biodefense, emerging infections, H5N1, H7N9, Smallpox, ST-246, viral, virology, virus

Vincent and Rich discuss avian influenza virus and an antiviral drug against smallpox with Dennis and Yoshi at the ASM Biodefense and Emerging Diseases Research Meeting in Washington, DC.

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TWiV 200: Threading the NEIDL

  • September 23, 2012
  • Tagged as: arenavirus, biocontainment, biodefense, bioterrorism, bsl2, bsl3, bsl4, containment facility, filovirus, NEIDL, niaid, select agent, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Alan, and Rich celebrate the 200th episode of TWiV by visiting the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories at Boston University Medical Center, where they meet with Elke, Paul, and Ron to talk about building and working in a BSL4 facility.

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TWiV 173: Going to bat for flu research

  • March 4, 2012
  • Tagged as: biodefense, fruit bat, H5N1, hemagglutinin, inapparent infection, influenza, seroprevalence, viral, virology, virus

The TWiVites discuss seroevidence for human infection with avian influenza H5N1, and the discovery of a new influenza virus in Guatemalan bats.

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TWiV 112: Creating a killer poxvirus

  • December 19, 2010
  • Tagged as: biodefense, bioterrorism, complement, ectromelia, H1N1, il-4, influenza, interleukin, mortality, pandemic, poxvirus, th1, th2, viral, virology, virus

Vincent, Alan, and Rich review the making of a virulent poxvirus by insertion of the gene encoding IL-4, and severe 2009 H1N1 influenza due to pathogenic immune complexes.

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