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  • TWiV Special: A shot of HepB with Chari Cohen

    TWiV Special: A shot of HepB with Chari Cohen
    Apr 29 2025

    From the 2024 International Hepatitis B virus meeting in Chicago IL, Rich Condit speaks with Chari Cohen about her work as President of the Hepatitis B Foundation.

    Host: Rich Condit

    Guest: Chari Cohen

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    • Hepatitis B Foundation
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    Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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    23 m
  • TWiV 1213: Secrets of HepB cccDNA

    TWiV 1213: Secrets of HepB cccDNA
    Apr 27 2025

    TWiV reviews new committee of experts to counter vaccine misinformation, resignation of NSF Director, dependence of immune response to rabies virus on the gut microbiome, and a nucleosome switch primes hepatitis B virus infection.

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    2 h y 5 m
  • TWiV 1212: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

    TWiV 1212: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
    Apr 26 2025
    In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello deplore the US’s withdrawal from the global health community for pandemic preparedness i.e. the universal avian flu vaccine, and undermining the use of routine childhood vaccinations for pertussis and measles, RFK’s autism registry, yellow fever outbreak in Colombia and world immunization week after discussing the squirrel as the reservoir host for mpox, before Dr. Griffin reviews recent statistics on RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections the WasterwaterScan dashboard, how immunity elicited by the RSV vaccine wanes in 3 years, if Paxlovid reduces stroke, 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, if vaccination impacts long COVID and if long COVID were to become epidemic. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode The American Public’s Disengagement With Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI): Considerations for Vaccination and Dietary Changes(American Public Health Association)New agreement geared toward universal avian flu vaccine (CIDRAP)Cambridge’s DIOSynVax and Singapore’s ACM Biolabs to advance pandemic-ready universal bird flu vaccine with international support (GlobeNewswire)Bird flu continues to spread among live poultry markets after shut down order (CRAIN’S New York Business)Fire-footed rope squirrels (Funisciurus pyrropus) are a reservoir host of monkeypox virus (Orthopoxvirus monkeypox)(Research Square)It is a squirrel! An animal source of mpox emerges(Nature)Whooping cough spikes, especially among unvaccinated teens (NBC News)A February flu surge has arrived (NCB News) Pertussis Cases by Year (1922-2022)(CDC: Whooping cough (pertussis))) ‘Fighting to breathe’: Whooping cough surges as vaccination rate falters (NBC News)CDC cancels measles help for Texas schools amid staff layoffs (HealthDay)Measles cases and outbreaks (CDC Rubeola)Measles 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))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)RFK Jr.’s autism registry plan (Axios)RFK Jr’s autism study collecting Americans’ private medical records (Guardian)The public’s views on measles outbreaks and misinformation (KFF) Colombia National Emergency: yellow fever cases (Gov.Co) World Immunization Week: polio eradiation?(GPEI)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)Trial shows waning efficacy of RSV vaccine across 3 seasons in older adults(CIDRAP) Efficacy, safety, and immunogenicity of the AS01E-adjuvanted respiratory syncytial virus prefusion F protein vaccine (RSVPreF3 OA) (LANCET: Respiratory Medicine)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)Where to get pemgarda (Pemgarda) EUA for the pre-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 (INVIYD)Infusion center (Prime Fusions) CDC Quarantine guidelines (CDC)NIH COVID-19 treatment guidelines (NIH)Drug interaction checker (University of Liverpool)Long-term stroke and mortality risk reduction associated with acute-phase paxlovid use in mild-to-moderate COVID-19(Journal of Medical Virology) 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 ...
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  • TWiV Special: A shot of HepB with Stephan Urban

    TWiV Special: A shot of HepB with Stephan Urban
    Apr 22 2025

    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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    • Hepatitis delta: recent advances (Hepatology)
    • Bulevirtide for HBV and HDV (Lancet Inf Dis)
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    Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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    43 m
  • TWiV 1211: Moo flu and dengue two

    TWiV 1211: Moo flu and dengue two
    Apr 20 2025

    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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    • 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!
    Weekly Picks

    Brianne – Scientists detect signature of life on a distant planet, study suggests
    Rich – Hanlon’s Razor
    Alan – Baby colossal squid filmed in deep ocean
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    John – Revisionist History: The RFK Jr. Problem

    Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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    1 h y 44 m
  • TWiV 1210: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

    TWiV 1210: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
    Apr 19 2025
    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. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode 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)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)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 ...
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  • TWiV 1209: Just say no to norovirus

    TWiV 1209: Just say no to norovirus
    Apr 13 2025

    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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    • 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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    Sonrisa – GOT’EM Good!

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    1 h y 41 m
  • TWiV 1208: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

    TWiV 1208: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
    Apr 12 2025
    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. Subscribe (free): Apple Podcasts, RSS, email Become a patron of TWiV! Links for this episode 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 COVIDNirmatrelvir–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 1208Dr. Griffin’s COVID treatment summary (pdf)Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees Send your questions for Dr. Griffin to daniel@microbe.tv Content in this podcast should not be construed as medical advice.
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