Nicole writes:
Hello,
My name is Nicole and I am a big fan of all the microbe.tv podcasts and have been for years! I am currently writing a thesis proposal on WNV and remembered hearing that 90% of American crows died from WNV. I couldn’t remember where this stat was from, but then it hit me: TWiV! I looked back at the transcripts, and it was in the very first episode. I am amazed that this fact stuck with me for so long, and I was wondering if anyone over at TWIV has a source for this statistic so that I can cite it in my proposal?
Thank you for your time,
Nicole
Try this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3323091/
Florian writes:
Dear Vincent,
Having just finished my PhD, I would like to take that as an opportunity and thank you and every member of the TWiX podcast universe. A friend suggested your online lecture on virology in spring 2020. I was shocked how little I know about virology and what a cool field it is. Soon after I became a regular listener of TWiV, TWEvo and TWiM, the latter being close to my field of natural products from microorganisms. Later I discovered TWiP, which made me watch the lecture series of Dickson and Daniel on parasites. Even though I cannot keep up with all your content, I appreciate all of them, each host and co-host and of course your interview guests. It is so important to communicate science in days of people losing trust to standard care like vaccines. You teach the public how science proceeds, how research data are critically reviewed, how even established scientists never stop to learn and continue to be open minded.
Listening to your program expanded my knowledge and inspired me to approach my scientific discipline from different perspectives. For sure you stuffed a lot of knowledge into my head. However, you also ended up on my head: decorating my PhD hat with a screenshot of TWiV, showing Vincent, Dickson, Kathy, Rich, Alan, and Brianne. I could send you a picture of that.
Thank you for three years of company, entertainment, and good science.
Greetings from Germany,
Florian
James writes:
Hello,
Thanks for all you do and learned much from the weekly updates.
Seems that post-infectious disease sequelaes didn’t really get a lot of attention until the COVID pandemic. For a long time,these were dismissed but have gained some attention in the past few decades. PTLDS, PVFS, CFS and ME appear to have a lot in common with PASC.
Thought you might have some comments on this. From all that I have read from the research, Occam’s Razor is not applicable here.
James
Karen writes:
Good day….
Brilliant and enlightening discussion on polio. Thanks for bringing in two more experts. Fleshed out the issues surrounding polio vaccination (infrastructure/ climate/cost) as well as issues concerning funding for continued research in irradiation/containment of the polio virus.
Very enlightening for this lay person.
Thank you
Karen
Anne writes:
Perhaps a listener pick?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/09/17/fatigue-cfs-longcovid-mitochondria/
Alan writes:
A parasitic wasp that can drill through a Petri dish to lay an egg. This may represent speciation in real time with lovely videos of the action of the ovipositer drill used by a small subset of Euplemus messene wasps. Enjoy.
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Alan