Vincent Racaniello ,PhD Interview Today - Sharon Sanders of FluTrackers Team

[sharon sanders]

Vincent Racaniello Interview Today



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Later today Dr. Vincent Racaniello will be interviewed on Radio Sandy Springs by Sharon Sanders of Flutrackers.

The show will air at 4pm EST, on Atlanta's 1620 AM, and will be simulcast on the Internet on Radio Sandy Springs.

If you are unable to listen at 4pm, the show is generally repeated at 6pm, and is archived for downloading within a couple of days.

Vincent Racaniello, a professor of Virology at Columbia University, pens the excellent Virology Blog and hosts the TWiV and TWiP podcasts on the Internet.

This should be a fascinating interview, and I look forward to hearing it.

This the latest in series of high profile interviews conducted by Sharon on Radio Sandy Springs. Over the past year she has had Dr. David Fedson, Dr. Michael Osterholm, Dr William Schaffner, and writer and historian John Barry as her guests, among others.

If you missed these shows, the follow links will take you to the archive, where you can listen online or download the MP3 files.

11/02/09 Guest Dr. David Fedson
08/17/09 Guest William Schaffner, MD
08/10/09 Guest Author John Barry
06/29/09 Guest Gregory H?rtl of the WHO
05/26/09 Guest Dr. Michael Osterholm
05/18/09 Guest Dr. David Fedson

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Radio Sandy Springs 1620 AM, is a low-powered Atlanta based talk radio station that simulcasts on the Internet. An archive of recent Infectious Disease Hour shows may be accessed here.

[Pathfinder]

Re: Vincent Racaniello ,PhD Interview Today - Sharon Sanders of FluTrackers Team

It is starting now.

[gsgs]

Re: Vincent Racaniello ,PhD Interview Today - Sharon Sanders of FluTrackers Team

22:22
> flu infects so many animals
> so we cannot eradicate it

**but only evolves in wild birds over the centuries

22:23
> receptor
> pigs have both

22:26
> not H5N1

22:27
> maybe not started in Mexico

** A/Swine/Mexico/4/2009(H1N1)

22:29
> has all the necessary things, earlier: single events

22:31
> consider all viruses, not so much flu

22:32
> biocrowd = facebook for scientists
> scientists are not very social

22:37
> no human volunteers for flu, people are different

**maybe it's done in other countries
** failure to infect "volunteers" in 1918: http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/...00&jp2Res=0.25



22:43
> get it twice
> some people can't mount immunity after infection but dont know it

22:45
> mentions all the posters
22:47
>mentions all the languages

22:50
> anonymously, laughs (I didn't understand)

22:51
s. recalls H5N1, reassort with H1N1
> had opportunities already (seasonal H1N1, H1N1 in pigs)
> increased opportunities now because of many infections
> possible, can't be predicted
**no probability estimate, sigh

never eradicated (what virus ?)

22:55
> new viruses in ice
> what are they infecting in the lake

22:56
>end

[sharon sanders]

Re: Vincent Racaniello ,PhD Interview Today - Sharon Sanders of FluTrackers Team

Thank you Gsgs!


There will not be a replay at 6:00 pm EST tonight.

An archive will be available in 3 days.

[gsgs]

Re: Vincent Racaniello ,PhD Interview Today - Sharon Sanders of FluTrackers Team

he was better to understand for me.
Lowder, slow speech
(I had maximum volume)