TWiV #11 - Elite controllers, mosquitoes, and winter vomiting
Vincent, Alan, and Jeremy discuss why certain AIDS patients, called \u2018elite controllers\u2019 or \u2018long-term non-progressors\u2019, do not develop disease, why mosquitoes infected with Sindbis virus remain healthy, and the continuing outbreaks of norovirus gastroenteritis.
\nLinks for this episode:
\nImmunity article on elite controllers.
\nPNAS article on protected mosquitoes.
\nThe word quarantine\xa0comes from the seventeenth century Venetian\xa0quarantena, which means forty day period.
\nScience podcast pick of the week:\xa0The Mr. Science Show
\nScience book of the week:\xa0Arrowsmith by Sinclair Lewis. Click here to see a page from my Mother\u2019s marked-up copy. She was a high school English teacher.
