Episode Details

The TWiV team reveals that recent mumps virus outbreaks in the US are due to waning vaccine efficacy, and an intranasally delivered small interfering RNA that controls West Nile infection in the brain.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

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Links for this episode

• ASM Microbe 2018
• ASV 2018
• Microbiology Student Symposium at UC Berkeley
• Support Viruses & Cells Gordon Conference
• Waning mumps vaccinein US (Sci Trans Med)
• siRNA controlof West Nile virus brain infection (Cell Host Microbe)
• Image credit
• Letters readon TWiV 488

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