Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
The TWiV team discusses how skin scarification promotes a nonspecific immune response, and whether remaining stocks of smallpox virus should be destroyed.
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Links for this episode
- Skin scarification protects against vaccinia virus disease (J Virol)
- Smallpox research agenda (PLoS Path)
- WHO report on variola research (pdf)
- Review of smallpox research program for WHO (pdf)
- Should variola virus be destroyed? (poll at virology blog)
- How I record my lectures (virology blog)
- Letters read on TWiV 284
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This was a completely amazing TWIV. I wish I could “favorite” it, because I want to be able to come back to it. The boosted immune response with scarification was fascinating, the philosophical discussion about whether to keep or destroy remaining smallpox stocks and finally a revisit of the Tamiflu episode via Mark Crislip was all just wonderful. Thank you!