Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dick Despommier, Alan Dove, and Marc Pelletier
Vincent, Dick, Alan, and Marc Pelletier summarize the past week’s influenza H1N1 activity, and discuss parvovirus infection of dogs and humans.
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Links for this episode:
- CDC and WHO web pages on the new influenza strain
- MMWR update on influenza
- Excellent influenza vaccine timeline at USA Today
- Sequences of influenza isolates are at NCBI and GISAID (registration required)
- Euthanizing dogs due to canine parvovirus
- Novel bocavirus associated with acute gastroenteritis in Australian children
- Viral genes that confer transmission of avian influenza virus through the air – PNAS
- Influenza in feral pigs (J Wildlife Dis)
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Dick US Geological Survey website
Alan Society for Amateur Scientists website
Vincent Sneeze, an online game
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Thanks for the info
Thanks for the info
Hi TWiVers!
You forgot to put a link to the paper about influenza in feral pigs that Alan Dove found on PubMed.
If people still browse the resources list for any episode, it might be useful. You can find it on
http://www.jwildlifedis.org/cgi/content/full/44/2/362
My apologies for the English, i’m a Belgian student