🌍 Earth's Virology Professor 🎙 microbe.tv host 🎥 YouTube.com/profvrr

Joined March 2008
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TWiV 1331: A drug for cervical cancer 〰️ TWiV explains research showing that dairy cows are infected with low doses of influenza A(H5N1) and do not transmit efficiently to other animals, & more. 📺 bit.ly/4a1OHBn
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Daniel Griffin and Vincent Racaniello opine on the recent executive order on the routine childhood vaccination schedule, the Ebola outbreak in the Congo and Uganda including the fast track trials for 2 vaccine candidates and antivirals, & more. 📺 bit.ly/3Sl81U0
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Immune Booster 30: Infant immunology with Martha Alexander Miller 🚼 Martha Alexander-Miller discusses why newborn and infant immune responses to vaccines are generally less effective and how we can make vaccines safer and more effective. 📺 bit.ly/4ujm2Pj
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TWiV explains research showing limited transmission of cervid prions to nonhuman primates, and the finding that cone-shaped HIV-1 capsids are transported through intact nuclear pores. Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Brianne Barker. 📺 bit.ly/4ogyUV8
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Daniel Griffin & Vincent Racaniello opine on the recent executive order on the routine childhood vaccination schedule, Ebola outbreak in the Congo & Uganda including the fast track trials for 2 vaccine candidates and antivirals, and more. 📺 bit.ly/4vBhPI0
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Tonight! ⏰ Special guest Dr. Daniel Griffin joins Vincent Racaniello for Office Hours to answer your questions about viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, Mpox virus, poliovirus, influenza virus & more on this livestream on Wednesday 6/3/26 at 8pm Eastern US. 📺 bit.ly/4uNhxxs
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Rasmussen Retorts #8: Why Ebola isn't going to "Go Airborne" 〰️ We have now reached the stage of the Bundibugyo ebolavirus outbreak where the “what if it goes airborne” discussion really starts to rev up. 📺 bit.ly/4x0H1t3
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TWiN 72: What cesarean babies miss 〰️ TWiN explains the finding that vaginal microbiota transfer ameliorates cesarean-associated neurodevelopmental deficits in mice via synthesis of a sphingosine derivative on neonatal skin. 📺 bit.ly/4dQWlj2
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Research on human influenza virus transmission that reveals heterogeneous expulsion of infectious virus into air, and how gut bacteriophages dictate inflammation heterogeneity through tuning phage-bacteria-sphingosine-intestine axis in Crohn’s disease. 📺 bit.ly/3QcmG3a
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Daniel Griffin & Vincent Racaniello comment on incidences of locally transmitted malaria in the US, mpox diagnostics, the latest developments surrounding hantavirus infections, and the Ebola outbreak in the Congo and Uganda including vaccine candidates. 📺 bit.ly/4vdCSzZ
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TWiP solves the case of the 3-year-old child, who recently immigrated to the US from Central America, in the ER with acute right lower quadrant abdominal pain and a rather active serpiginous wormlike ‘thing’ wiggling away in the child’s appendix. 📺 bit.ly/3Q8OCoA
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Today! ⏰ TWiEVO #126 Livestream this afternoon at 12pm EST on Tuesday, May 26. Special guest Roxanne Khamsi, science writer and author of Beyond Inheritance, joins Nels and Vincent on this special episode. 📺 bit.ly/4tZwmvR
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Immune 105: All about allergies 〰️ The Immune team talks about two papers on the effect of sleep and environment on seasonal allergies. 📺 bit.ly/4vftCM2
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TWiV 1325 〰️ Vincent travels to Oregon State University in Corvallis to meet up with Hannah Rowe to talk about her career and her work demonstrating how the interaction of influenza A virus and Streptococcus pneumonia influences transmission. 📺 bit.ly/4f18mVn
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Daniel Griffin & Vincent Racaniello discuss withdrawal of ACIP charter published in April 2026, first council meeting on antibiotic resistant bacteria, latest developments surrounding hantavirus infections, and the Ebola outbreak in Congo and Uganda. 📺 bit.ly/4nINRz7
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Package inserts are legal communication documents that list vaccine side effects that occur during clinical trials & will often appear in the package insert even when those side effects occur at the same rate in those who received placebo. 📺 bit.ly/4v3ctVu
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Casey Means—skeptic of vaccines, believer in divine estrogen, psilocybin-fueled husband quest sojourner, residency program dropout & all-around functional medicine quack—was booted from being nominee for Surgeon General after withdrawing her nomination. 📺 bit.ly/4tNRiWk
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Nicholas Jackson, AKA Nick the Immunologist, talks about being a graduate student, social media creator, and his research on cytokine tools to investigate regulatory T cells. 📺 bit.ly/43fQvCO
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An update on the Andes hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius as of 12-13 May 2026, including what we know about the index case, disposition of passengers and their illnesses, and the genome recovered from one of the patients. 📺 bit.ly/43dsA73
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TWiV explains mRNA delivery of mosaic-8 pan-sarbecovirus RBD vaccines, and how toll-like receptor 7 alters the maternal immune landscape during influenza A infection to increase maternal and fetal morbidity.📺 bit.ly/3RdWVzS
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