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Episode Synopsis
In episode 36 of This Week in Virology, hosts Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Dick Despommier and guest Hamish Young discuss the 2009 influenza pandemic, first 2009 H1N1 vaccine, hunting mosquitoes with midges, vaccine-associated polio in India, and adenoviruses.
Links for this episode:
WHO calls it a pandemic
Novartis produces test run of H1N1 vaccine
Midge keeps invasive mosquito in check
Two cases of vaccine-associated polio in India
BBC interactive map of influenza cases
Outbreak of adenovirus type 14
Weekly Science Picks
Dick The World’s Water by Peter H. Gleick Hamish Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond; Complications by Atul Gawande Alan Eurekalert Vincent Respectful Insolence
Links for this episode:
WHO calls it a pandemic
Novartis produces test run of H1N1 vaccine
Midge keeps invasive mosquito in check
Two cases of vaccine-associated polio in India
BBC interactive map of influenza cases
Outbreak of adenovirus type 14
Weekly Science Picks
Dick The World’s Water by Peter H. Gleick Hamish Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond; Complications by Atul Gawande Alan Eurekalert Vincent Respectful Insolence
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