TWiV 1169: Can anyone hook me up with a duck?

11/24/24 • 54 min

TWiV travels to Brisbane, Australia for the Options XII for the control of influenza conference, and meets up with Stephanie Gras and Jenna Guthmiller to talk about their careers and their research.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Kathy Spindler, and Steph Langel

Guests: Stephanie Gras and Jenna Guthmiller

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Goldilocks zone of influenza immunity (J Inf Dis)
Broadly neutralizing HA antibodies (Nature)
T cell epitopes needed for influenza vaccines (Clin Transl Immunol)
T cell epitopes conserved in emerging H5N1 viruses (Clin Transl Immunol)
Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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

TWiV travels to Brisbane, Australia for the Options XII for the control of influenza conference, and meets up with Stephanie Gras and Jenna Guthmiller to talk about their careers and their research.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Kathy Spindler, and Steph Langel

Guests: Stephanie Gras and Jenna Guthmiller

Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email

Become a patron of TWiV!

Links for this episode

Goldilocks zone of influenza immunity (J Inf Dis)
Broadly neutralizing HA antibodies (Nature)
T cell epitopes needed for influenza vaccines (Clin Transl Immunol)
T cell epitopes conserved in emerging H5N1 viruses (Clin Transl Immunol)
Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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.

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Micky D’s onions linked to E. coli outbreak....another reason to not eat fast food (CDC)
RFK Jr. series.....does he get anything right? (FactCheck.org)
Salk polio vaccine : a calculated risk? (BMJ)
How to conduct a controlled vaccine trial (American Journal Public Health Nations Health)
Safety and efficacy of BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine (NEJM)
Another Safety and efficacy study: mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine (NEJM)
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Thank God for sensible people: Racaniello and Offit (microbeTV)
RFK Jr. : MAN CAN’T YOU GET ANYTHING RIGHT? (Annenberg Public Policy Center: University of Pennsylvania)
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Keep the United States HEALTHY! (Safe Communities Coalition)
Measles in the US (CDC Measles: Rubeola)
The merry-go-around of measles (JID)
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10.3 million measles infections in 2023....but no vaccine (WHO)
Underutilization of influenza antiviral treatment among children and adolescents (CDC MMWR)
Increase in influenza infection in

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Influenza weekly surveillance report: cliff notes (CDC FluView)
US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
RSV-Network (CDC Respiratory Syncytial virus Infection)
In case you missed, US respiratory virus activity (CDC Respiratory Illnesses)
Adaptation of H5N1 to humans.....sequence analysis (Nature)
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From 2022: unprecedented bird flu outbreaks sweeping the world.....and we are still talking about it? (Nature)
What children get flu: First child in US infected with H5N1 (CDC Newsroom)
Bird flu detected in raw milk......but RFK at HHS says it is safe? (NBC News)
COVID-19 deaths (CDC)
COVID-19 national and regional trends (CDC)
Waste water scan for 11 pathogens (WastewaterSCan)
COVID-19 variant tracker (CDC)
SARS-CoV-2 genomes galore (Nextstrain)
If I see no one in my house, household Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Transmission is reduced! (CID)
Updated boosters conferred protection against SARS-CoV-2 infection and emergency visits/hospitalizations during a JN.1 variant wave(CID)
Provisional COVID-19 mortality (CDC National Center for Health Statistics)
Influenza, RSV and COVID-19 vaccine in nursing home residents (CDC MMWR)
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