TWiV Special: DA Henderson, smallpox eradicator

TWiV Special: DA Henderson, smallpox eradicator

Donald "D.A." Henderson, a physician, educator, and epidemiologist who led the World Health Organization's campaign to eradicate smallpox, died at 87 years of age on Aug. 19, 2016. Vincent was fortunate to have the opportunity to speak with DA Henderson in 2014 about his career, the smallpox eradication effort, and what it means for the eradication of polio.

Become a patron of TWiV!

This episode is brought to you by CuriosityStream, a subscription streaming service that offers over 1,400 documentaries and non­fiction series from the world's best filmmakers. Get unlimited access starting at just $2.99 a month, and for our audience, the first two months are completel free if you sign up at curiositystream.com/microbe and use the promo code MICROBE.

This episode is also brought to you by Drobo, a family of safe, expandable, yet simple to use storage arrays. Drobos are designed to protect your important data forever. Visit www.drobo.com to learn more. Listeners can save $100 on a Drobo system at drobostore.com by using the discount code Microbe100.

Send your virology questions and comments to twiv@microbe.tv

Episoder(1346)

TWiV 1152: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

TWiV 1152: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin deep dives into the durability of the antibody response following mpox vaccination, vaccine security, global mpox circulation, the origins of SARS-CoV-2, inc...

28 Sep 202457min

TWiV 1151: Hotel California for Phage

TWiV 1151: Hotel California for Phage

TWiV reviews polio vaccination campaign in Gaza, viruses with zoonotic potential in farmed fur animals, low HPV vaccination in North Texas associated with high rates of cervical cancer, a large flaviv...

22 Sep 20241h 44min

TWiV 1150: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

TWiV 1150: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin dives into West Nile virus in New Jersey, poliovirus vaccination campaign in Gaza and Afghanistan, California dengue virus infections, children dying from fl...

21 Sep 202447min

TWiV 1149: Mary Estes, a gutsy virologist

TWiV 1149: Mary Estes, a gutsy virologist

From the annual meeting of the American Society for Virology, Kathy and Brianne speak with Mary Estes about her career and the research of her laboratory on viruses that infect the gastrointestinal tr...

15 Sep 20241h 4min

TWiV 1148: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

TWiV 1148: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin dives into "pandemic potential" viruses isolated from farmed fur animals, how the mRNA and pox vectored vaccines against mpox spar against each other, how te...

14 Sep 202444min

TWiV 1147: Breastmilk paradox for norovirus

TWiV 1147: Breastmilk paradox for norovirus

TWiV reviews multi-country outbreak of Mpox, first face covering ban in Nassau County NY, case of polio in India, more in US accept vaccine misinformation, other wartime diseases in Gaza besides polio...

8 Sep 20241h 46min

TWiV 1146: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

TWiV 1146: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin discusses seasonal influenza vaccine recommendations from the CDC, polio vaccine campaign securing mpox vaccine for Africa, and donating to reduce food insec...

7 Sep 202437min

TWiV 1145: Heartbeats and hoofbeats

TWiV 1145: Heartbeats and hoofbeats

TWiV reviews a case of polio in Gaza, more Mpox, COVID-19 boosters, effectiveness of Ebola virus vaccine, measles cases across the US, an endogenous retroviral envelope protein that regulates human ca...

1 Sep 20241h 45min

Populært innen Vitenskap

fastlegen
rekommandert
jss
tingenes-tilstand
rss-rekommandert
tomprat-med-gunnar-tjomlid
abels-tarn
forskningno
sinnsyn
liberal-halvtime
vett-og-vitenskap-med-gaute-einevoll
villmarksliv
rss-inn-til-kjernen-med-sunniva-rose
nevropodden
rss-paradigmepodden
nordnorsk-historie
fjellsportpodden
hva-er-greia-med
dekodet-2
tidlose-historier