TWiV covers a second death over 150 cases of measles in Texas, utter failure of removal of type 2 poliovirus from OPV, more OPV doses administered in Gaza, second Ebola outbreak in Sudan, vaccine being tested, Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants to Columbia University, bat-infecting merbecovirus that binds human ACE2 and infects human cells, and innate immune sensing of rotavirus by intestinal epithelial cells leads to diarrhea.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
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- Second child dies of measles (NY Times)
- Over 150 measles cases in Texas (Texas DSHS)
- Utter failure of removal of OPV2 from OPV (Science)
- Over 600,000 doses of OPV administered in Gaza (polioeradication)
- Second outbreak of Sudan Ebola in Uganda (IAVI)
- Columbia grants canceled by administration (NBC News)
- Bat merbecovirus also infects human cells via Ace2 (Cell)
- Recent virus research, was proper containment used? (NY Times)
- Innate immune sensing of rotatvirus leads to diarrhea (Cell Host Microbe)
- Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!
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