TWiV 403: It's not easy being vaccine
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit
The TWiV team takes on an experimental plant-based poliovirus vaccine, contradictory findings on the efficacy of Flumist, waning protection conferred by Zostavax, a new adjuvanted subunit zoster vaccine.
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Links for this episode- Tribunal orders release of PACE trial data (Valerie Eliot Smith)
- Our request for PACE trial data (virology blog)
- GM mosquito release on ballot (NPR)
- Florida Keys Mosquito Control District on TWiV #111
- Cold chain and virus free plant based polio vaccine (Plant Biotechnol J)
- Disappointing flu vaccine effectiveness (CBC)
- ACIP votes down use of LAIV (CDC)
- LAIV as effective as inactivated flu vaccine (Ann Int Med)
- Flumist does work (NPR)
- Declining effectiveness of zoster vaccine (J Inf Dis)
- Efficacy of adjuvanted subunit zoster vaccine (NEJM)
- Risk of zoster from vaccine (J Inf Dis)
- Image credit: ViralZone
- Letters read on TWiV 403
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