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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Links for this episode

• Support science education at MicrobeTV
• ASV 2025
• 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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