TWiV 403: It's not easy being vaccine

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Rich Condit

The TWiV team takes on an experimental plant-based poliovirus vaccine, contradictory findings on the efficacy of Flumist, waning protection conferred by Zostavax, a new adjuvanted subunit zoster vaccine.

 

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Links for this episode

• Tribunal orders release of PACE trial data (Valerie Eliot Smith)
• Our request for PACE trial data (virology blog)
• GM mosquito release on ballot (NPR)
• Florida Keys Mosquito Control District on TWiV #111
• Cold chain and virus free plant based polio vaccine (Plant Biotechnol J)
• Disappointing flu vaccine effectiveness (CBC)
• ACIP votes down use of LAIV (CDC)
• LAIV as effective as inactivated flu vaccine (Ann Int Med)
• Flumist does work (NPR)
• Declining effectiveness of zoster vaccine (J Inf Dis)
• Efficacy of adjuvanted subunit zoster vaccine (NEJM)
• Risk of zoster from vaccine (J Inf Dis)
• Image credit: ViralZone
• Letters read on TWiV 403

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