TWiV reviews measles outbreaks in England and Europe, 2 fatal Nipah virus cases in Bangladesh, yellow fever outbreak in Sudan, and discuss how the type of immunodeficiency influences the outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infection, and programming of alveolar macrophages by intestinal bacteria that influences severity of respiratory viral infection.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, and Rich Condit

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Links for this episode * MicrobeTV Discord Server * MicrobeTV store at Cafepress * Become a member of ASV (asv.org) * Research assistant position in Rosenfeld Lab CBER/FDA (pdf) * The New City by Dickson Despommier * Viruses of Microbes 2024 * Pig virus imperils food security in Borneo (Science) * Measles outbreaks in UK and Europe (Nature) * Fatal Nipah virus infections in Bangladesh (CIDRAP) * Yellow fever outbreak in Sudan (Crisis24) * COVID-19 influenced by type of immunodeficiency (Sci Transl Med) * Intestinal microbiota programming of alveolar macrophages (Cell Host Microbe) * Letters read on TWiV 1085 * Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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