Transmission of Monkeypox Virus Through Contaminated Objects
by Gertrud U. Rey Recent news headlines are fueling public fears about possible transmission of monkeypox virus through contact with contaminated objects like bedding or clothing. However, data generated using environmental sampling methods indicate that the likelihood of this type of transmission is very low. In a study involving a two-person household in Utah in […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - September 1, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey contaminated objects direct contact fomites infectious virus monkeypox monkeypox virus PCR transmission viable viral culture viral DNA Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: My Letter to Bristol and the Health Research Authority About Uncorrected Crawley Papers
By David Tuller, DrPH In 2019, a report from the University of Bristol and the UK’s Health Research Authority recommended corrections to the ethics statements of eleven studies. Professor Esther Crawley, Bristol’s ethically and methodologically challenged star researcher and grant magnet, was the main author and/or principal investigator of all eleven papers. In a post […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 30, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Bristol Crawley Health research authority Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: Professor Crawley Was Asked to Correct Ethics Statements in 11 Papers; 7 Are Still Uncorrected
By David Tuller, DrPH A few years ago, a valued source alerted me to a strange quirk in the work of pediatrician Esther Crawley, Bristol University’s methodologically and ethically challenged star researcher and grant magnet. Not all tips are reliable, but this one definitely was. As it turned out, Professor Crawley had–based on a single […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 29, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Bristol Crawley ethics review Health research authority Source Type: blogs

TWiV 931: Driven to immunodistraction
TWiV reviews the genetic characterization of a new strain of type 2 oral polio vaccine and its implications for eradication, and how a polymorphism in humans comprising a single amino acid change in an antibody molecule regulates vaccine elicitation of broadly neutralizing antibodies against influenza virus HA. (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 28, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology broadly neutralizing antibody influenza virus neurovirulence nOPV2 poliovirus vaccine viral viruses wastewater Source Type: blogs

TWiV 930: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
In his weekly clinical update Dr. Griffin discusses antibody response against nonpoliovirus enteroviruses, clinical presentation and virological assessment of confirmed human monkeypox virus cases in Spain, object and surface contamination with monkeypox virus, monkeypox virus infection in humans across 16 countries, clinical characteristics of ambulatory and hospitalized patients with monkeypox virus infection, compassionate use of Tecovirimat […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 27, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Vincent Racaniello Tags: This Week in Virology antiviral coronavirus COVID-19 delta inflammation Long Covid marburg virus monkeypox monoclonal antibody Omicron pandemic poliovirus SARS-CoV-2 vaccine vaccine booster variant of concern viruses Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: Ryan Prior on Biden ’ s Plans; Physician with Long Covid; Writers Discuss ME ’ s Impact
By David Tuller, DrPH I’ve sometimes highlighted interesting or enlightening articles, blog posts, and podcasts I’ve read or heard/watched. I’m trying to make sure to keep up with that effort. That’s not always easy, given the volume of material now being produced about ME/CFS, long Covid, so-called “medically unexplained symptoms,” and related issues. But here […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 23, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized ryan prior Writers with ME Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: In a Tub Talk, Therapist Damon Jacobs and I Discuss ME/CFS, Long Covid & AIDS Activism
By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier today, I posted a conversation about post-exertional malaise featuring Todd Davenport, a professor of physical therapy at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. I’d conducted the interview in April but had forgotten to post it here. And here’s another video I forgot to post—what I assume is the […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 23, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized damon jacobs tub talk Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: Todd Davenport on Post-Exertional Symptom Exacerbation in Long Covid and ME/CFS
By David Tuller, DrPH Todd Davenport is a professor of physical therapy at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. He is also part of a research team from Workwell Foundation, an exercise physiology center in Ripon, California, that pioneered the use of 2-day cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) to document the core ME and ME/CFS symptom […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 23, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: A Letter to Journal Brain About Paper Claiming POTS Is a “ Functional Psychogenic Disorder ”
By David Tuller, DrPH I recently criticized a study from New York University’s neurology department. The investigators wildly over-interpreted their findings in order to argue that postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, or POTS, is a “functional psychogenic disorder.” This morning, I sent a letter to Brain, the journal that published the paper, on behalf of several […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 17, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized brain functional psychogenic disorder NYU POTS Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: King ’ s College London Still Promoting Discredited CBT/GET/Deconditioning Paradigm
By David Tuller, DrPH I have written a few posts about how various health entities have so far not changed the information about ME/CFS on their websites or acknowledged the revised recommendations published by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) last October. In addition to replacing the name CFS/ME with ME/CFS, […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 9, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs

Transmission of Enteric Viruses through Saliva
by Gertrud U. Rey Norovirus and rotavirus are considered to be enteric pathogens because they are traditionally thought to be transmitted by the fecal-oral route; i.e., when consuming food prepared by someone who did not wash their hands properly after using the bathroom. Unlike rabies virus, which replicates in the salivary glands and transmits through […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 4, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: Gertrud U. Rey Tags: Basic virology Gertrud Rey enteric virus fecal-oral route IgA mammary glands norovirus rotavirus saliva salivary glands SIGA transmission Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: Is POTS a “ Functional Psychogenic Disorder ” ? Yes, According to NYU Research Team
By David Tuller, DrPH Research into conditions categorized as “medically unexplained symptoms” (MUS) or “functional” disorders seems rife with studies that eagerly interpret associations and correlations as causal relationships. Not surprisingly, these proposed causal relationships tend to flow in the direction required by the investigators’ hypotheses, not in the direction that would undermine their arguments. […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 3, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized causal New York University POTS Putrino Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: A Few Things I ’ ve Read (or Heard) Lately About ME/CFS and Long Covid
By David Tuller, DrPH Here are a few things I’ve recently read (or listened to). FreakonomicsMD podcast The Freakonomics brand is well-known in the US. I didn’t realize there was a Freakonomics, M.D. podcast until I listened to this recent half-hour episode. The podcast is hosted by Dr Bapu Jena, a physician and economist at […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - August 2, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Freakonomics Jeremy Devine Kahn-Harris Yochai Re'em Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: Professor Chalder Reports CBT Does Not Work for Post-Stroke Fatigue, Calls for More Research
By David Tuller, DrPH Calling out a Trudie Chalder paper is way too easy. It’s also old hat for Virology Blog—going back to 2015 and my initial investigation into the now-discredited PACE trial, of which she was one of three lead investigators. She is a professor of “cognitive behavioural psychotherapy” at King’s College London, so […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 26, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized chalder fatigue stroke Source Type: blogs

Trial By Error: A Conversation with Patient Advocate Adam “ Beyonce Holes ” Lowe
By David Tuller, DrPH Adam Lowe, known in some incarnations as Beyonce Holes, is a longtime ME/CFS patient and advocate in Manchester, England, served as a lay member of the committee that produced the new clinical guidance published last October by the UK’s National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. (This conversation was a follow-up […] (Source: virology blog)
Source: virology blog - July 26, 2022 Category: Virology Authors: David Tuller Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs