TWiV 990: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses confronting the evolution and expansion of anti-vaccine activism in the USA in the COVID-19 era, the effectiveness of maternal Influenza vaccination in Peru, characteristics and predictors of persistent symptoms post-COVID-19 in children and young people, parental nonadherence to health policy recommendations for prevention of COVID-19 transmission among children, community-onset bacterial coinfection in children critically ill with SARS-CoV-2 infection, bivalent booster effectiveness against severe COVID-19 outcomes in Finland, viral kinetics of sequential SARS-CoV-2 inf...
Source: This Week in Virology - MP3 Edition - March 11, 2023 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Source Type: podcasts

"Amphibious Assault" -- The Discovery Files
Researchers collected samples of seven frog species from the Chiriqu í highlands in Panama to find out what kind of skin bacteria they harbored. Studying the skin bacteria of Panamanian frogs may lead to the development of alternative drugs to treat the fungi causing aspergillosis in humans, which are becoming more drug-resistant, and to defy the chytridiomycosis ep idemic, the major source of disease-related death among amphibians worldwide. (Source: The Discovery Files)
Source: The Discovery Files - March 26, 2019 Category: Science Authors: National Science Foundation Source Type: podcasts