On episode #79 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent and Alan converse about making published science accessible to everyone, global eradication of poliomyelitis, and whether a plant virus can cause disease in humans.

Host links Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove

Links for this episode:

• Making published science accessible to everyone (Nature News)
• Federal Research Public Access Act
• Is disease eradication a waste of money?
• Do we have an ethical obligation to eradicate polio?
• Signs of progress in polio eradication (NY Times)
• Polio eradication: Harder than it looks (Fortner)
• Gates rethinks his war on polio (WSJ)
• Asymptomatic wild-type poliovirus infection in immune children (J Inf Dis)
• Can a plant virus cause disease in humans? (PLoS One)
• Replication of tomato spotted wilt virus in HeLa cells (PNAS)
• Glycine detected in comet (thanks Vincent!)
• Letters read on TWiV 79

Weekly science picks:

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