Episode Details

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!

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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