TWiV 217: I just flu in and my arms are shot

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Dickson Despommier

Vincent, Alan, Rich, and Dickson review influenza vaccines.

Links for this episode:

•  FDA licensed flu vaccines
• Seasonal influenza vaccine distributed
• How flu vaccine strains are selected (one, two)
• WHO report on flu vaccine strain selection (pdf)
• Derek Smith on antigenic mapping
• Salk's 1945 influenza vaccine
• TIV preparation: Fluzone, Agriflu, Fluvirin, Fluarix, Flulaval, Afluria (pdfs)
• LAIV preparation (pdf)
• Efficacy of flu vaccine 2012-13 (MMWR, virology blog)
• Meta-analysis of flu vaccine efficacy (Lancet)
• Two new flu vaccines FDA approved
• Flublok
• Flublok clinical trial
• Pandemrix and narcolepsy (Yahoo, PLoS One, PLoS One)
• CIDRAP analysis of flu vaccines
• Letters read on TWiV 217

Weekly Science Picks

Rich - Repoopulate (original article), Robogut (new clinical trial)Alan - WTF, Evolution?Dickson - The Beauty and Benefits of ScienceVincent - Supercomputing modeling of poliovirus

Listener Pick of the Week

Bjorn, Marshall, Meaghan - Glass sculptures of Luke Jerram

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