TWiV reviews the administrations dismantling of the committee that studies pandemic potential, firing of CDC vaccine advisory committee and replacing them with unqualified anti-vaxxers, zoonotic and sustained Mpox spread in Nigeria and Cameroon, and breadth of influenza A antibody cross-reactivity.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and Brianne Barker

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NIH terminates pandemic preparedness committee (Science)
RFK Jr. fires all ACIP members (CNN)
RFK Jr. names dubious members of new ACIP (NPR)
Zoonotic and sustained Mpox spread in West Africa (Nature)
Breadth of influenza A antibody cross-reactivity (Nat Micro)
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