episode 759: Pork dogs and an evolutionary pickle
TWiV examines spillovers of porcine and canine coronaviruses into humans in Haiti and Malaysia, and how antigenic evolution of measles virus is constrained by multiple co-dominant epitopes on the viral glycoproteins.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Amy Rosenfeld
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Links for this episode- ASV vaccine town halls 15:10
- Porcine deltacoronavirus in Haitian children (medRxiv)
- Canine coronavirus from Malaysian pneumonia patient (Clin Inf Dis)
- No shift, measles (TWiV 340)
- The Cancer Thief (TWiV
- Letters read on TWiV 759
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Dickson – Ants: workers of the world
Amy – Let The Record Show by Sarah Schulman
Rich – QAnon resembles the games I design
Alan – Librivox
Vincent – Stratechery
Fernando – The 60-year old scientific screwup that helped COVID kill
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees
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