Arthro-Pod 145: A Deep Dive into West Nile VIrus
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Hello bug lovers! Today, we're guided by Mike Skvarla into a deep dive on West Nile virus. A mosquito borne illness, West Nile is something the Arthro-Pod crew has learned a lot about over the course of their lives and careers. In fact, one of them even tested positive for it after trying to give blood... Mike was inspired by Episode 1031 of the
This Week in Virology podcast, where they discussed a recent paper on
the subject. The paper is “Autoantibodies neutralizing type I IFNs
underlie West Nile virus encephalitis in ∼40% of patients”, by Gervais
et al. published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine. Tune in to learn about the history of WNV and the current research focused on it.
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