TWiV covers a second death over 150 cases of measles in Texas, utter failure of removal of type 2 poliovirus from OPV, more OPV doses administered in Gaza, second Ebola outbreak in Sudan, vaccine being tested, Trump administration cancels $400 million in grants to Columbia University, bat-infecting merbecovirus that binds human ACE2 and infects human cells, and innate immune sensing of rotavirus by intestinal epithelial cells leads to diarrhea.

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

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Second child dies of measles (NY Times)
Over 150 measles cases in Texas (Texas DSHS)
Utter failure of removal of OPV2 from OPV (Science)
Over 600,000 doses of OPV administered in Gaza (polioeradication)
Second outbreak of Sudan Ebola in Uganda (IAVI)
Columbia grants canceled by administration (NBC News)
Bat merbecovirus also infects human cells via Ace2 (Cell)
Recent virus research, was proper containment used? (NY Times)
Innate immune sensing of rotatvirus leads to diarrhea (Cell Host Microbe)
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