TWiV 679: Mink, mutation, and myocytes

<p>Daniel Griffin provides a clinical report on COVID-19, Slovlakia’s plan to test all adults for SARS-CoV-2 infection, viral variants arising in Danish mink and their potential threat to humans, why it is unethical to carry out challenge trials, Nipah virus dynamics in bats and spillovers into humans, and direct cardiac damage by spike-mediated cardiomyocyte fusion.</p> <div class="fluid-width-video-wrapper">Hosts: <a href= "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Racaniello">Vincent Racaniello,</a> <a href="http://www.trichinella.org/">Dickson Despommier</a>, <a href="http://www.alandove.com/">Alan Dove</a>, <a href= "http://www.mgm.ufl.edu/faculty/faculty-home-pages/condit-richard-c/"> Rich Condit</a>, and <a href= "http://www.twitter.com/BioProfBarker">Brianne Barker</a></div> <p>Guests: <a href="http://parasiteswithoutborders.com/">Daniel Griffin</a> and <a href="http://www.enterovirus.net/">Amy Rosenfeld</a></p> <p>Subscribe (free): <a href= "http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=300973784">iTunes</a>, <a href="https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cDovL3R3aXYubWljcm9iZXdvcmxkLmxpYnN5bnByby5jb20vdHdpdg%3D%3D">Google Podcasts</a>, <a href= "http://twiv.microbeworld.libsynpro.com/twiv">RSS</a>, <a href="http://eepurl.com/Gcw59">email</a></p> <p>Become a <a href= "https://www.microbe.tv/contribute">patron</a> of TWiV!</p> <h3><strong>Links for this episode</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Denmark will <a href= "https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-denmark-mink/denmark-plans-to-cull-its-mink-population-after-coronavirus-mutation-spreads-to-humans-idINKBN27K1YV"> cull mink</a> (Reuters)</li> <li>State Serum Institute <a href= "https://nyeborgerlige.dk/wp-content/uploads/Risikovurdering-af-human-sundhed-ved-fortsat-minkavl_03112020.pdf"> statement in Danish</a></li> <li>Unethical to use SARS-CoV-2 <a href= "https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/10/27/2021189117">human challenge studies</a> (PNAS)</li> <li>Nipah virus <a href= "https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/10/27/20004291