Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Eric F. Donaldson
Vincent, Alan, Rich and Eric discuss identification of viruses in Northeastern American bats, vaccinia virus infection after sexual contact with a military vaccinee, and identification of a new flavivirus from an Old World bat in Bangladesh.
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- Vaccinia virus infection after sexual contact with vaccinee
- Smallpox vaccination overview
- Smallpox vaccine lesions (jpg)
- Smallpox hospital, Roosevelt Island, NY (photo 1, photo 2)
- Isolation of a flavivirus from bats in Bangladesh (PLoS Pathogens)
- Review on hepatitis G virus
- Dickson has been teaching at Singularity University and fishing in Bozeman MT (jpg)
- Letters read on TWiV 90
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I just saw an article today in Science Daily on endogenous filovirus genes in bats and…get this…marsupials! It's so odd. Here is the link:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/10…
It's on the agenda for the next TWiV…we'll have an expert on
endogenous viruses to weigh in.
Nice episode, especially learning more about bats' viruses. A great factoid/bar bet: based on genomes bats are closer “relatives” to humans than other rodents/marsupials.
Here are recent aerial pics of Manhattan reader uncertain about NY geography may appreciate. http://bit.ly/9VlF9R — #24 is a view of Roosevelt Island from the north (Long Island/Queen on left, Manhattan on right), the SmallPox Hospital ruins are at the end of the island.
I don't understand why, even in the mid 1800's, this was believed to be isolation — maybe due to lack of understanding transmission mechanisms?