From the 2024 International Hepatitis B virus meeting in Chicago IL, Rich Condit speaks with Stephan Urban about his career working on HBV and HDV, and his philanthropy.

Host: Rich Condit

Guest: Stephan Urban

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• Support science education at MicrobeTV
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• Hepatitis delta: recent advances (Hepatology)
• Bulevirtide for HBV and HDV (Lancet Inf Dis)
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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TWiV discusses the rising autism rate among children, RFK Jr.’s claim that autism ‘destroys lives’, receptor binding specificity of a bovine H5N1 influenza virus, and improved dengue subunit vaccine modified to form E protein dimers.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker

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• Support science education at MicrobeTV
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• Rising autism rate among children (MMWR)
• RFK Jr. claims autism ‘destroys lives‘ (NY Times)
• Receptor binding specificity of bovine H5N1 virus (Nature)
• Bovine H5N1 binds poorly to human receptors (Nature)
• AJ Eisfeld et al reply (Nature)
• Mootant influenza H5N1 virus (TWiV 1131)
• Improved dengue 2 subunit vaccine (J Virol)
• Letters read on TWiV 1211
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello rue about the continuation of the gutting of the American public health infrastructure, the continuing measles outbreak, an unreported outbreak of deadly E.coli human infections, meningococcal disease before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, ACIP recommended changes in guidelines for the RSV and COVID-19 vaccines, reactogenicity differences between Novavax and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID interventions, effects of long COVID in children and adolescents and a list of ongoing clinical trials for long COVID treatment.

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• Making America Healthy Again-purging of administrators at HHS (Politico)
• Making America Healthy Again-purging of data (Politico)
• Deep cuts of the federal government (NY Times)
• Cutting NIH, CDC and HHS promotes chronic disease research(Washington Post)
• Political ideology and trust in scientists in the USA(Nature Human Behavior)
• US political conservatives have deep, unbudging suspicion of science, survey suggests(CIDRAP)
• A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it(NBC News)
• Invasive meningococcal disease – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia(WHO)
• The essential guide to understanding the differences between hajj and umrah (Marhabahaji)
• Measles Vaccination: Know the Facts(ISDA: Infectious Diseases Society of America)
• Measles booster? (Washington Post)
• How to stop an outbreak…….fire the experts (Washington Post)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)
• Measles 159 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services)
• 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health)
• Measles and rubella weekly monitoring (Government of Canada)
• Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg)
• NAFMA: North American Free Measles agreement…..(NY Times)
• Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health)
• Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC)
• Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC)
• Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Doctors’ talk measles (YouTube)
• Measles (CDC: Measles Rubeola)
• Adverse events associated with childhood vaccines: evidence bearing on causality (NLM)
• Measles Vaccination: Know the Facts(ISDA: Infectious Diseases Society of America)
• Deaths following vaccination: what does the evidence show (Vaccine)
• Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• 200 children die from flu (CIDRAP)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA)
• RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection)
• ACIP votes to expand recommendation for Pfizer’sRSV vaccine Abrysvo® to include adults aged 50 to 59 at increased risk of disease (Pfizer)
• Respiratory syncytial virus and incidence of cardiovascular events: a nationwide self-controlled case series analysis (JACC Journals)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• COVID-19 deaths (CDC)
• COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC)
• COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC)
• SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain)
• Comorbidities associated with different degrees of severity in children and young people hospitalized with acute COVID-19 (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)
• SHIELD-Utah study shows Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine induces lower reactogenicity symptoms compared to mRNA (Novavax)
• Interim clinical considerations for use of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States (CDC Vaccines & Immunizations)
• Novavax says its COVID vaccine produces fewer, milder reactions than Pfizer version(CIDRAP)
• US CDC advisers discuss narrower use of COVID-19 vaccines (Reuters)
• Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda)
• EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD)
• Infusions center (Prime Fusions)
• CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC)
• NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH)
• Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool)
• Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society)
• Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV)
• Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society)
• What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC)
• When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC)
• Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC)
• Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID)
• Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org)
• Daniel Griffin’s evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID)
• Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center)
• The answers: Long COVID
• Kidney Function following COVID-19 in children and adolescents(JAMA Network Open)
• Cardiovascular post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 in children and adolescents: cohort study using electronic health records(Nature Communications)
• Great barrington declaration (gbdeclaration.org)
• Clinical trials:
• Effectiveness of transcranial direct current in patients with persistent COVID-19 with headaches and chronic pain.
• Home-based Brain Stimulation Treatment for Post-acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC)
• Acupuncture for post COVID-19 Condition (Long COVID) neuropsychiatric symptoms
• Pain relief with integrative medicine (prime)?: feasibility of acupuncture for long COVID
• Electro-acupuncture for long COVID neuropsychiatric symptoms
• Randomised study to investigate the effectiveness of acupuncture for the relief of long COIVD-19 related fatigue (ACU-COVID)
• Vagus stimulation in female long COVID patients.(Vagus)
• Stellate ganglion block with lidocaine for the treatment of COVID-19-induced parosmia (Stella)
• Therapeutic updates on long COVID: Where things stand 5 years later (ID Society)
• Reaching out to US house representative
• Letters read on TWiV 1210
• Dr. Griffin’s COVID treatment summary (pdf)
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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TWiV reviews RFK Jr’s odd comments on ‘single antigen’ vaccines and his September deadline for understanding why autism has increased, dire wolf does not come back from the dead, oral norovirus vaccine tablet that induces mucosal immunity in older adults, and identification of broadly neutralizing human monoclonal antibodies against norovirus.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

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• Support science education at MicrobeTV
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• RFK Jr. and Novavax (MSN)
• September deadline to understand autism rise (Reuters)
• Dire wolf not resurrected (Science)
• Oral norovirus vaccine tablet (Sci Transl Med)
• Broadly neutralizing norovirus monoclonal antibodies (Sci Transl Med)
• Letters read on TWiV 1209
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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Brianne – New experiment updates classic experiment on how life on Earth started Kathy – APOD ISS meets Venus, Sign up for NASA ISS alerts, GoISS Watch Alan – Mason bees could replace honeybees as crop pollinators Vincent – Mystery of medieval manuscripts revealed by ancient DNA

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Sonrisa – GOT’EM Good!

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello mourn the demise of vaccination against childhood diseases when discussing the continuing measles outbreak and the rise of pertussis, the first human case of H5N1 in Mexico, and human metapneumovirus before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections and vaccination schedules, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID interventions, if antiviral therapy prevents long COVID and how long COVID may affect brain volume.

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• A natural experiment on the effect of herpes zoster vaccination on dementia (Nature)
• Taking a shot at dementia (microbeTV: TWiV)
• RFK Jr. visits Texas after second child dies of measles amid outbreak (Washington Post)
• Kennedy Attends Funeral of Texas Girl Who Died of Measles(NY Times)
• ‘Most effective way’ to prevent measles is vaccination, RFK Jr. says, in most direct remarks yet (STAT News)
• Fort Bliss…..Fort measles: Beaumont Army hospital confirms measles case at Fort Bliss(KTSM News)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)
• Measles 159 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services)
• Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg)
• 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health)
• Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health)
• Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola)
• Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC)
• Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC)
• Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Doctors’ talk measles (YouTube)
• Measles (CDC: Measles Rubeola)
• Adverse events associated with childhood vaccines: evidence bearing on causality (NLM)
• Measles Vaccination: Know the Facts(ISDA: Infectious Diseases Society of America)
• Deaths following vaccination: what does the evidence show (Vaccine)
• Two infants die of whooping cough in Louisiana (CNN)
• Clinical features of pertussis (CDC: Whooping cough Pertussis)
• Pertussis vaccination recommendations (CDC: Whooping cough Pertussis)
• Diphtheria vaccination (CDC: Diphtheria)
• Mexico’s first human case of H5N1 (Reuters)
• Human metapneumovirus seasonality and co-circulation with respiratory syncytial virus — United States, 2014–2024 (CDC: MMWR)
• Influenza: Wastewater scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA)
• RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• COVID-19 deaths (CDC)
• COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC)
• COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC)
• SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain)
• Human source SARS-CoV-2 aerosol transmission to remote sentinel hamsters (OFID)
• Interim clinical considerations for use of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States (CDC Vaccines & Immunizations)
• Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda)
• EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD)
• Fusion center (Prime Fusions)
• CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC)
• NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH)
• Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool)
• Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society)
• Cost-effectiveness analysis of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir for high-risk individuals with COVID-19….does this mean use the big button calculator? (OFID)
• Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV)
• Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society)
• What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC)
• When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC)
• Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC)
• Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID)
• Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org)
• Daniel Griffin’s evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID)
• Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center)
• The answers: Long COVID
• Nirmatrelvir–ritonavir versus placebo–ritonavir in individuals with long COVID in the USA (PAX LC): (LANCET: Infectious Diseases)
• Quantitative brain volume differences between COVID-19 patients and non-COVID-19 volunteers (NeuroImage)
• Donepezil for fatigue and psychological symptoms in post–covid-19 condition (JAMA Network Open)
• Letters read on TWiV 1208
• Dr. Griffin’s COVID treatment summary (pdf)
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

TWiV notes the passing of Klaus Conzelmann, then reviews reverse-zoonoses of 2009 H1N1 pandemic influenza A viruses and evolution in United States swine, and reduction in dementia incidence in recipients of Zostavax.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

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• Support science education at MicrobeTV
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• Reverse zoonoses of 2009 H1N1 in US swine (PLoS Path)
• Zostavax reduces dementia (Nature)
• Letters read on TWiV 1207
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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Rich – Certain Roller Coasters May Help Small Kidney Stones Pass Alan – Analog and Asimov’s science fiction magazines Vincent – Science Under Threat in the United States: How scientists and institutions should respond

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Charles – Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin and Vincent Racaniello lament about the continuing measles outbreak, whether or not the measles outbreak was predicted, the FACTS about vaccination, high pathogenic influenza, H5N1 contaminated raw pet food, children’s deaths, before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections and vaccination schedules and the efficacy of Moderna’s seasonal mRNA vaccine, societal burden of COVID-19 and influenza, the FDA missed deadline for approving Novovax COVID vaccine, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID interventions, and Canada’s long COVID dashboard.

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• CDC buried a measles forecast that stressed the need for vaccinations….TRANSPARENCY? (Politico)
• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)
• Measles 159 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services)
• 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health)
• Measles and rubella weekly monitoring report (Government of Canada)
• Enhanced epidemiological summary Measles in Ontario (Public Health Ontario)
• Measles and rubella weekly monitoring report (Government of Canada)
• Enhanced epidemiological summary Measles in Ontario (Public Health Ontario)
• Measles exposures in Ontario (Public Health Ontario)
• Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg)
• Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health)
• Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC)
• Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC)
• Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Raw cat food tests positive for H5N1 (CIDRAP)
• Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2046 influenza vaccine composition (FDA)
• RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection)
• Early impact of RSV vaccination in older adults in England (Lancet)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• COVID-19 deaths (CDC)
• COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC)
• COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC)
• SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain)
• Evaluating the effectiveness of 2024-2025 seasonal mRNA-1273 vaccination against covid-19-associated hospitalizations and medically attended covid-19 among adults aged ≥ 18 years in the united states(medRxiv)
• Current Moderna vaccine 53% effective against COVID hospitalization?(CIDRAP)
• Preliminary estimates of COVID-19 burden for 2024-2025 (CDC COVID-19)
• Estimated range of annual burden of flu in the US from 2010 – 2024 (CDC-flu burden)
• US FDA missed the deadline for decision on Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine (Reuters)
• Interim clinical considerations for use of COVID-19 vaccines in the United States (CDC Vaccines & Immunizations)
• Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda)
• EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD)
• Fusion center (Prime Fusions)
• CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC)
• NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH)
• Metformin alleviates inflammatory response and severity rate of COVID-19 infection in elderly individuals(Scientific Reports)
• Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool)
• Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society)
• Cost-effectiveness analysis of nirmatrelvir/ritonavir for high-risk individuals with COVID-19….does this mean use the big button calculator? (OFID)
• Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV)
• Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society)
• What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC)
• When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC
• Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC)
• Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID)
• Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org)
• Daniel Griffin’s evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID)
• Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center)
• The answers: Long COVID
• Reinfection with SARS-CoV-2 in the omicron era is associated with increased risk of post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2  infection: a recover-EHR cohort study(medRxiv)
• CAN-PCC RecMap, your one-stop shop for recommendations about Post COVID-19 Condition (Long COVID) (Canadian Guidelines for post COVID-19 condition)
• Letters read on TWiV 1206
• Dr. Griffin’s COVID treatment summary (pdf)
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to [email protected]

Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

TWiV reviews liver damage caused by over use of vitamin A in Texas, vitamin A does not change clinical course of measles in high income country, NIH cuts COVID-19 research, US ends vaccine funds for poor countries, anti-vaxxer hired to study vaccines and autism, new DURC policy, Jamaican fruit bat competence for filoviruses, and human outbreaks of Oropouche virus reassortant in Brazil.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker

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• Support science education at MicrobeTV
• ASV 2025
• Vitamin A liver disease in Texas (NY Times)
• Vitamin A doesn’t help measles in high-income countries (Pediat Inf Dis)
• NIH cancels COVID grants (Science)
• US ends vaccine funds for poor countries (NY Times)
• Anti-vaxxer to study vaccines and autism (Sci Based Med)
• DURC rules revised (USG and NIH guidance)
• Filoviruses and Jamaican fruit bats (Nat Comm)
• Oropouche outbreaks in Brazil (Nat Med)
• Woolly mice (NPR)
• Letters read on TWiV 1205
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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Brianne – Math of March Madness Brackets Kathy – Wood frogsicles #1 and #2 Alan – Rare glimpse of baby polar bears emerging from dens Vincent – Hikaru Utada Would Rather Play CERN Than Coachella

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

Send your virology questions and comments to [email protected]

Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello rue about the continuing measles outbreak, the FACTS about vaccination, irresponsibility of promoting vitamin A therapy “lifelong liver damage or vaccinaton!”, high pathogenic influenza and egg importation before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections and vaccination schedules and if vaccination affects long COVID, the WasterwaterScan dashboard, where to find PEMGARDA, provides information for Columbia University Irving Medical Center’s long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, long COVID interventions, how to track long symptoms using a wearable device and how these data will never be used with the closing of governmental long COVID programs and offices.

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• Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)
• Measles 159 in Texas…. (Texas Health and Human Services)
• 2025 Measles outbreak guidance (New Mexico Health)
• 10 in Ohio and 23 in Kansas…..oh my! (US News)
• Measles data (Kansas: Department of Health and Enivornment)
• Health director urges parents to ensure children are vaccinated against measles (Ohio: Department of Health)
• Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health)
• New York Governor Kathy Hochul sounds alarm for measles vaccine amid 4 confirmed cases (abc News)
• Get the FACTS about measles (NY State Department of Health)
• Long-term dynamics of measles virus–specific neutralizing antibodies in children vaccinated before 12 months of age (CID)
• Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Clinical Overview of Measles (CDC Rubeola)
• Red Book: 2024–2027 Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases (33rd Edition)(Redbook)
• Vitamin A in Children Hospitalized for Measles in a High-income Country (Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal)
• No vaccination necessary…….instead take vitamin A and develop liver damage….(NY Times)
• Measles vaccine recommendations from NYP (jpg)
• Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Measles vaccine (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Presumptive evidence of measles immunity (CDC)
• Contraindications and precautions to measles vaccination (CDC)
• Measles (CDC Measles (Rubeola))
• Influenza of avian origin confirmed in a sheep in Yorkshire (UK government)
• UK reports H5N1 in a sheep on poultry-outbreak farm(CIDRAP)
• Don’t send money….send EGGS! (Reuters)
• Are your eggs domestic or Brazilian? (Reuters)
• USDA to invest 100M in bird flu projects…..(Reuters)
• Influenza: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• Flu in US continues to decline but still packs a punch (CIDRAP)
• Weekly surveillance report: clift notes (CDC FluView)
• Respiratory virus activity levels (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• FDA-CDC-DOD: 2025-2026 influenza vaccine composition (FDA)
• RSV: Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• Weekly US influenza surveillance report (CDC FluView)
• US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
• RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection)
• Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
• COVID-19 deaths (CDC)
• COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC)
• COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC)
• SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain)
• Lower levels of household transmission of sars-cov-2 omicron variant of concern vs wild type: an interplay between transmissibility and immune status (JID)
• Does COVID-19 vaccination reduce the risk and duration of post COVID-19 condition?(European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control)
• COVID-19 vaccination reduces risk of ‘long COVID’ in adults (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control)
• Vaccination cuts the risk of long COVID 27%, review suggests (CIDRAP)
• Interim clinical considerations for use of covid-19 vaccines in the United States (CDC: Vaccines and immunizations)
• Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda)
• EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD)
• Fusion center (Prime Fusions)
• CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC)
• NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH)
• Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool)
• Infectious Disease Society guidelines for treatment and management (ID Society)
• The effect of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir on short- and long-term adverse outcomes from covid-19 among patients with kidney disease (ofid)
• Molnupiravir safety and efficacy (JMV)
• Convalescent plasma recommendation for immunocompromised (ID Society)
• What to do when sick with a respiratory virus (CDC)
• When your healthcare provider is infected/exposed with SARS-CoV-2 (CDC)
• Managing healthcare staffing shortages (CDC)
• Steroids, dexamethasone at the right time (OFID)
• Anticoagulation guidelines (hematology.org)
• Daniel Griffin’s evidence based medical practices for long COVID (OFID)
• Long COVID hotline (Columbia : Columbia University Irving Medical Center)
• The answers: Long COVID
• Effect of pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with long COVID-19(Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease)
• Wearable data reveals distinct characteristics of individuals with persistent symptoms after a SARS-CoV-2 infection(npj digital medicine)
• Long Covid office ‘will be closing,’ Trump administration announces(Politico)
• Commencing the reduction of the federal bureaucracy(White House) Musk said no one has died since aid was cut. That isn’t true.(NY Times)
• Letters read on TWiV 1204
• Dr. Griffin’s COVID treatment summary (pdf)
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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TWiV explains why RFK Jr.’s proposal to let H5N1 infections in birds ‘rip’ is a bad idea, phase 1/2 trial of combined influenza/COVID mRNA vaccines, and how your first influenza virus exposure shapes the B cell response to influenza vaccination 50 years later.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Brianne Barker

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• Support science education at MicrobeTV
• ASV 2025
• RFK Jr. says let H5N1 rip through flocks (NY Times)
• Combined flu/COVID mRNA vaccine (Nat Comm)
• Rare syndrome after COVID vaccination (NY Times, medRxiv)
• Imprinting lasts 50 years (Immunity)
• Imprinting protects against H5N1 and H7N9 (Science)
• Letters read on TWiV 1203
• Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

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