This Week in Virology
Hosted by Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove and Brianne Barker and Rich Condit and Jolene Ramsey and Kathy Spindler · Vincent Racaniello
4.8from 2,065 ratings
- 383
- Episodes
- 292
- Transcribed
- 2,065
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
- 21M
- YouTube views
About This Week in Virology
This Week in Virology is a netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick.
- Publisher
- Vincent Racaniello
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 Mar 2023
- Latest episode
- 4 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
292 of 383 episodes have a transcript.
4 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
TWiV 1363: A Cauldron of Bats
3 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
TWiV 1362: Clinical Update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
27 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
TWiV 1351: Ancient Viral Sword and Shield
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TWiV 1363: A Cauldron of Bats
Published 4 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And they're typically away from rural and marginalized populations that have the burden of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases, right? In rural areas where H5N1 mostly spills over, there's very little clinical support to look at that. Mm-hmm. But we do have more and more geo-referenced outbreak data sets for many of these diseases. And that's what they took advantage of in this study. They have geo-referenced human outbreak data for 32 infectious diseases. These include bat viruses with epidemic and pandemics. pandemic potential, rodent-borne pathogens, mosquito-borne arboviruses, and other zoonotic diseases like melioidosis, Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever, and even malaria, plasmodium nolzi. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on This Week in Virology
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- Daniel Griffin
- Roberto Cattaneo
- Kalpana Yadav
- Paul Bieniasz
- Angela Bosco-Lauth
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 20,790,245
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 2,065 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 88 / 100
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- Quality
- 100
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts This Week in Virology?
Vincent Racaniello and Alan Dove and Brianne Barker and Rich Condit and Jolene Ramsey and Kathy Spindler host the show. Published by Vincent Racaniello.
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Does This Week in Virology take guests?
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