TWiV 907: When the cats and mice are away, the viruses play

[@hanscollin9332]

Richard's super brief lecture on how viruses cause cancer is nothing short of brilliant. He's amazingly simple and very clear. Wow!

[@user-nx6ji9tk8i]

Just listen to Rich explain the role viruses play in cancers…. What a bril scientific rational. The interplay of brilliant minds. What a great thinking. Thanks.

[@Mark_Ocain]

I so couldn't live in Austin..the summers can be brutally hot and humid with it.

[@priyasingh-po5yr]

I am always in awe of this show! its now like a part of my DNA

[@zinnialady5153]

Interesting, as you were talking Rich , was wondering if that could have been what was going on with my sister. She died at age 37 with head and neck cancer. Then it was mentioned there is sometimes a connection with head and neck. Guess I will never know for sure.

[@j.d.8075]

Could have ~ This Week in Cancer ~ which would cover all cancer information etc...

[@BigGuy8059]

I think human behavior in the US changed quite a bit between the Delta wave and the Omicron wave. We got very blase about avoiding infection since Omicron was so "mild" according to the popular press nonsense.

[@BigGuy8059]

The tragedy is that we lost a Snow Leopard to Covid. We have literally billions of humans but we only have less than 7000 snow leopards left in the world.

[@animalparty8206]

👍👍👍👍👍Great show! Love this Trio!!! Cool topics! I would love to hear Cindy's thoughts on cat IgM. Also LOVE the topic of HPV. So fascinated by this virus!!! Love Brianne's pic! Thank you TWiV!!!! Always Inspiring!!!!❤❤❤❤❤

[@peterjf7723]

Brianne has an intermittent problem with her computer causing her image to jitter.

[@lesfaby8997]

I have sent Prof Vincent a note and a link to an example. Thanks. It looks like dropped internet packets. I have not seen this before. If anyone has seen jitters before, please tell me which episode and timestamp.

[@lesfaby8997]

Update: the recording on Prof. Brianne's side was good. All 3 local videos were then recombined to make the episode. There was a mysterious problem in that rendering process despite multiple retries.

[@peterjf7723]

@@lesfaby8997 Thanks Les.

[@kazoz3520]

These researchers were quite confident that the Jan 2022 Hong Kong Delta outbreak source (first identified in pet shop worker), originated from imported Syrian Hamsters from Europe. Interestingly, this 23 yr old worker had 2nd dose Pfizer on 16 Sep 2021, contact with pet hamsters from 7 Jan, became symptomatic 11 Jan 2022 (sore throat & cough), therefore got tested (15 Jan qPCR Ct 21). Kind of lucky that she wasn't asymptomatic, caught the outbreak early. Yen et al. 2022 "Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant (AY.127) from pet hamsters to humans, leading to onward human-to-human transmission: a case study". Haagmans & Koopmans 2022 "Spreading of SARS-CoV-2 from hamsters to humans"

[@nottooherbal]

65 furious cats .

[@rubanya7570]

Poetic letter 24

[@shaunjefferies4043]

@AandV how do they kill the mice after they don't need them anymore? Maybe can answer in qna episode?

[@gribbler1695]

Ref: Euthanasia of Research Animals - UCI Office of Research

[@traiandanciu8139]

Did minks have lower body temperature ? ,because at TWiV Nr 659 at min29 Christian Drosten indicate low tissue temperature better to replicate SARS COV2.