TWiV examines spillovers of porcine and canine coronaviruses into humans in Haiti and Malaysia, and how antigenic evolution of measles virus is constrained by multiple co-dominant epitopes on the viral glycoproteins.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Amy Rosenfeld

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ASV vaccine town halls 15:10
Porcine deltacoronavirus in Haitian children (medRxiv)
Canine coronavirus from Malaysian pneumonia patient (Clin Inf Dis)
No shift, measles (TWiV 340)
The Cancer Thief (TWiV
Letters read on TWiV 759
Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!

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