Jun 14 2009 93 mins 61
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 pandemicNovartis produces test run of H1N1 vaccineMidge keeps invasive mosquito in checkTwo cases of vaccine-associated polio in IndiaBBC interactive map of influenza casesOutbreak 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
