TWiV #36 - Pandemic

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

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