TWiV 1205: Pluviosity didn't kill the bat

TWiV reviews liver damage caused by over use of vitamin A in
Texas, vitamin A does not change clinical course of measles in
high income country, NIH cuts COVID-19 research, US ends vaccine
funds for poor countries, anti-vaxxer hired to study vaccines and
autism, new DURC policy, Jamaican fruit bat competence for
filoviruses, and human outbreaks of Oropouche virus reassortant
in Brazil.


Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Kathy
Spindler, and Brianne Barker


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Vitamin A liver disease in Texas (NY Times)

Vitamin A doesn’t help measles in high-income
countries (Pediat Inf Dis)

NIH cancels COVID grants (Science)

US ends vaccine funds for poor countries (NY Times)

Anti-vaxxer to study vaccines and autism (Sci Based
Med)

DURC
rules revised (USG and NIH guidance)

Filoviruses and Jamaican fruit bats (Nat Comm)

Oropouche outbreaks in Brazil (Nat Med)

Woolly mice (NPR)

Letters read on TWiV 1205

Timestamps by Jolene Ramsey. Thanks!

Weekly Picks

Brianne – Math of March Madness
Brackets
Kathy – Wood
frogsicles #1 and #2
Alan – Rare glimpse of baby polar
bears emerging from dens
Vincent – Hikaru Utada Would Rather
Play CERN Than Coachella


Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees


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