Description

Vincent, Dick, Alan and Rich revisit a vaccinia virus lab accident and viral vaccines produced in plants, then talk about an iPhone app to track infectious diseases, flying foxes, and an inhaled measles vaccine.

Links for this episode:

• Laboratory acquired vaccinia infection
• Medicago (investor presentation, pdf) and Fraunhofer produce vaccines in plants
• iPhone app Outbreaks near me
• No culling of flying foxes in Australia
• Inhaled powdered measles virus vaccine
• Herpesvirus latency confers symbiotic protection from bacterial infection (thanks Juliet!)
• Porcine circovirus vaccine
• Swine flu vaccine and Guillain-Barré (thanks Tom!)
• The Great Flu and blog post (thanks Swiss compass and Allison!)
• Building semiconductors with DNA (thanks Duncan!)
• Email on viral classification (thanks Rodney and Eliot!)

Weekly Science Picks

RichStumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert
DickEliot Porter at the Carter Museum and bookstore at Amazon
AlanDr. Clarke's H1N1 rap at the HHS sponsored YouTube contest
VincentCoast to Coast Bio Podcast